From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:03:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: add check-headers target
Message-ID: <20140910000328.GB12644@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa969nav9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:57:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> >
> >> David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> +IFS='
> >>> +'
> >>> +git ls-files *.h ewah/*.h vcs-svn/*.h xdiff/*.h |
> >>
> >> Hmm.  This is only for true developers (not one who merely compiles
> >> after expanding a tarball), so "git ls-files" may probably be OK.
> >>
> >> But "/bin/ls" would be equally fine for that, no?
> >
> > Actually, since this is "| while read header", I have to wonder why this
> > is not written as
> >
> > for header in .h ewah/*.h vcs-svn/*.h xdiff/*.h
> > do
> > 	...
> > done
> 
> Yes, that would be even better.  Then you wouldn't even have to
> worry about $IFS dance.

The original motivation was to avoid picking up the generated
common-cmds.h header file.

It was the N_() function that was messing it up.

Would it make sense to split out a separate patch that makes common-cmds.h
check-headers clean?
-- 
David