From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: redhat.com, ip: 209.132.183.28, mailfrom: lersek@redhat.com) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by groups.io with SMTP; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:58:57 -0700 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A39B3C057F31; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lacos-laptop-7.usersys.redhat.com (ovpn-117-231.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.231]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA595D71A; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [off-topic] Readme.md: add submodule policy and clone commands To: devel@edk2.groups.io, leif.lindholm@linaro.org, "Kinney, Michael D" Cc: "Wang, Jian J" , "Gao, Liming" References: <20190710060955.7672-1-jian.j.wang@intel.com> <20190710060955.7672-2-jian.j.wang@intel.com> <20190710142629.aomcdzwvapo34k6c@bivouac.eciton.net> <20190710171734.m36astajy7v55xur@bivouac.eciton.net> From: "Laszlo Ersek" Message-ID: <4c701b2e-5d15-f060-34b3-1de580db34fa@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:58:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190710171734.m36astajy7v55xur@bivouac.eciton.net> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.32]); Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (off-topic, as marked in the subject) On 07/10/19 19:17, Leif Lindholm wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 05:08:32PM +0000, Kinney, Michael D wrote: >> Leif, >> >> I think the following command has to be run from the git >> dir that the edk2 repo was cloned into. >> >> $ git submodule update --init >> >> So I think the correct instructions would be: >> >> $ git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git >> $ cd edk2 >> $ git submodule update --init > > I only said I reviewed it, not that the review was correct ;) > > Yeah, good catch. I just mentally filtered out the clone bit. > >> $ cd .. > > Why would you want to leave? Heh, that's a good one :) Reminds me of a blog post or similar where the question was posed (tongue-in-cheek of course), "why boot at all? UEFI gives you everything!" :) Thanks! Laszlo