From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:51:24 GMT
Subject: Re: vcxproj target, was Re: [PATCH] Makefile: drop GEN_HDRS
Message-ID: <20191219045124.GB89333@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1912171231450.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > (did you know that the vcxproj rule manually builds and git-adds
> > command-list.h? No idea what is going on there),
> 
> The idea of this is that contributors can clone the `vs/master` branch
> from Git for Windows repository, check it out, and open it in Visual
> Studio, then build.
> [...]
> That's what's going on there.

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. Though I still think I stand by my
statement that the cost/benefit isn't really there to switch how we
handle command-list.h.

-Peff