From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 02:51:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] subtree/Makefile: Standardize (esp. for packagers)
Message-ID: <20140427025150.GA26382@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <6a7bcc79-d9c3-4cf8-8f3b-a6a16298c221@email.android.com>

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:35:13PM +1000, James Denholm wrote:

> >Do we even make [subproject and mainline] anymore? It looks like they are part
> >of the tests, but the whole test script runs inside its own trash
> >directory.
> 
> subproject and mainline are actually made in  contrib/subtree,
> but I'll look at perhaps "fixing" that when I split the proposal
> into a series as you suggest.

Are they? I couldn't find any reference to them as directories except in
the test script, and doing a "make" from contrib/subtree didn't create
them. I'll leave it to you to investigate further whether the "clean"
rules are cruft or not, but certainly if they are, cleaning up cruft is
a good thing.

-Peff