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From: rebecca@bsdio.com
To: devel@edk2.groups.io, afish@apple.com
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] git submodule update --init --recursive
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:23:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35027f0c-51f3-a37a-c94a-b3df084c3981@bsdio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83E89A1F-25F0-40ED-BE33-6843030DFEE4@apple.com>

On 2019-08-23 14:41, Andrew Fish via Groups.Io wrote:
> I was following the instructions on how to build OVMF and my build failed. It looks like the reason it failed was because I did not do a `git submodule update --init --recursive`. It would be good if we could make how to clone the edk2 instructions a bit more obvious. 


I think we came to the conclusion that "--recursive" isn't needed. But
I've found that there are cases where "--force" is required to make sure
git checks out a submodule correctly.


-- 
Rebecca Cran


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-23 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-23 20:41 git submodule update --init --recursive Andrew Fish
2019-08-23 22:23 ` rebecca [this message]
2019-08-26  3:54   ` [edk2-devel] " Liming Gao
2019-08-26 21:59     ` Andrew Fish
2019-08-26 22:11       ` Michael D Kinney
2019-08-26 22:29         ` Andrew Fish
2019-08-27 13:37           ` Laszlo Ersek

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