[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] maint: improve bootstrap

My biggest motivation in writing this patch series is the fact that I already have the complete gnulib.git on my hard drive, and repeatedly doing shallow clones of gnulib into multiple projects gets expensive in both network traffic and disk space. With this series, it is now possible to do: GNULIB_SRCDIR=/path/to/reference/gnulib.git ./autogen.sh so that the .gnulib subdirectory will exploit git's --reference capabilities rather than re-download all the files from scratch; it also results in less disk usage. The only caveat is that you should make sure that your reference gnulib.git is never rewound beyond contents referred to by a submodule, so that you never risk creating delta objects in the client repositories that would break if the reference module eventually prunes objects rendered unused by the rewind (in practice, this is only a problem if you are prone to pointing the .gnulib submodule to a non-published commit, in order to test out pending changes to gnulib.git, and can be avoided by doing your gnulib development in a different directory than in the reference gnulib.git that only tracks upstream). .gitignore | 20 +- autogen.sh | 21 +- bootstrap | 852 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- bootstrap.conf | 145 +++++++++ build-aux/.gitignore | 12 +- po/.gitignore | 26 +- po/Makevars | 41 --- 7 files changed, 967 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-) Eric Blake (4): maint: fix quoting in autogen.sh maint: start factoring bootstrap maint: import modern bootstrap maint: sort .gitignore -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org