[PATCH] Fix --show-commands.

[Chris Johns]

On 12/06/2018 17:45, Christian Mauderer wrote:
> Am 12.06.2018 um 09:29 schrieb Chris Johns:
>> On 12/06/2018 17:18, Christian Mauderer wrote:
>>> Am 12.06.2018 um 07:08 schrieb Chris Johns:
>>>> On 09/06/2018 02:45, Christian Mauderer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you also note Gedares suggestion to move the rtems_waf.git to the
>>>>> public repos? Maybe that would be a good idea.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes I did and it is a good idea. I have move the repo to the top level and
>>>> updated cgit's config so it is viewable.
>>>>
>>>> Will need to update the repos that include this. Please consider the changes to
>>>> do that pre-approved.
>>>
>>> This change will make it necessary to do a `git submodule sync` for
>>> every user in the affected repositories. So maybe it would be a good
>>> time to think about another point to avoid a second sync:
>>>
>>> Do we want to keep the absolute URL or do we want to use relative URLs?
>>>> The first one has a longer backward compatibility (relative URLs are
>>> there since 2007: https://github.com/git/git/commit/f31a522a2d which
>>> should be somewhere between git 1.5 and git 1.6).
>>>
>>> The second one would allow mirrors that use a mirrored sub-repository too.
>>>
>>
>> What do you think we should do?
> 
> My first guess would have been to use relative URLs. But after I've seen
> that this feature is there only since 2012 (1.7.12) (see second mail)
> I'm not so sure anymore.
> 
> It seems that there are not too much active distributions left that have
> a git < 1.7.12 in the latest release:
> 
> https://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=git&relation=less&pkgver=1.7.12&distrorange=InLatest#pkgsearch
> 
> But on the other hand for example CentOS 6 (which is one of the longest
> supported distributions I know of) still has a git 1.7.1. And I would
> expect that this is a distribution that has the potential to be used as
> a build machine quite often.
> 
> So also relative modules would be a good idea, maybe we should wait for
> something around two or three more years (CentOS 6 runs out of support
> in 11/2020).

This makes sense. Thanks.

> 
>>
>>> By the way: Shouldn't the rtems_waf be mirrored on github too? I think
>>> most core-repositories are.
>>
>> Yes it would be good to have the repo mirrored on git. It is one of the hooks in
>> list that does this. Anyone with commit access should be able to edit the hooks
>> and change this.
> 
> But most likely someone belonging to the github RTEMS group has to
> create it there first, right?
> 

I suppose so, I do not know. I am a novice github user. Sebastian?

Chris