configure: remove --with-git= option

The scenario for which --with-git= was introduced was to use a SOCKS proxy
such as tsocks.  However, this was back in 2017 when QEMU's submodules
used the git:// protocol, and it is not as important when using the
"smart HTTP" backend; for example, neither "meson subprojects download"
nor scripts/checkpatch.pl obey the GIT environment variable.

So remove the knob, but test for the presence of git in the configure and
git-submodule.sh scripts, and suggest using --with-git-submodules=validate
+ a manual invocation of git-submodule.sh when git does not work.  Hopefully
in the future the GIT environment variable will be supported by Meson.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 08fb6a3b05..8005f1cc53 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Makefile: .git-submodule-status
 git-submodule-update:
 ifneq ($(GIT_SUBMODULES_ACTION),ignore)
 	$(call quiet-command, \
-		(GIT="$(GIT)" "$(SRC_PATH)/scripts/git-submodule.sh" $(GIT_SUBMODULES_ACTION) $(GIT_SUBMODULES)), \
+		(GIT=git "$(SRC_PATH)/scripts/git-submodule.sh" $(GIT_SUBMODULES_ACTION) $(GIT_SUBMODULES)), \
 		"GIT","$(GIT_SUBMODULES)")
 endif