Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Makefile: fix interrupted builds of user-manual.xml

From

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Apr 22, 2010, 10:24 UTC

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<20100422102254.GA701@progeny.tock>

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<FA4A6177-AB3E-4C5C-8042-1BFBAE09528B@pobox.com>

Chris Johnsen wrote:

> On 2010 Apr 21, at 20:18, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> user-manual.html: user-manual.xml
>> -	$(QUIET_XSLTPROC)xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@ $(XSLT) $<
>> +	$(QUIET_XSLTPROC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
>> +	xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@+ $(XSLT) $< && \
>> +	mv $@+ $@
>>

[...]

> I suppose it is obvious enough what is going on in this in this
> second hunk, but there is no mention of this change in the commit
> message. Is this hunk due to a similar problem with xsltproc? Or
> maybe this is just "defensive coding"?