Re: [PATCH 4/4] Move initialization of Git::SVN variables into Git::SVN.

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
>> > The redundant dependencies are biting us :<  I agree there presence in
>> > the top-level Makefile needs to be reviewed.
>> 
>> Do you feel confident enough that we can leave that question hanging
>> around and still merge this before 1.7.12 safely?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I do not think it is a regression at the Makefile level per-se---we
>> didn't have right dependencies to keep perl.mak up to date, which
>> was the root cause of what we observed.
>> 
>> But the lack of dependencies did not matter before this series
>> because the list of *.pm files never changed, so in that sense the
>> series is what introduced the build regression, and I do not have a
>> solid feeling that we squashed it.
>
> Right, I agree the original dependencies are not good and it's not
> a recent regression in the Makefile level.
>
> I do feel our patch deals with the problem for now.  I've been going
> between commits in Michael's 3rd series and haven't noticed new issues
> when running the tests.