Re: [PATCH] perl bindings fix compilation errors

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 02:40 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwt7qjal5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609261031430.25371@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> It is certainly incorrect to say that it is a driver error to
>> git-pull (or git-checkout to switch branches) without running
>> "make clean" first to get rid of perl/Git.c while your Makefile
>> still knows it is a generated file.  Our Makefile should be more
>> helpful.
>
> How about this:

The problem is on which branch we would apply this and how long we will carry it. I suspect you would have to have it forever and everywhere. After all your bisect can hit a version with Git.xs and then next build suggested by bisect may be a version without it. And the user is doing that bisect long after we release version 47.

The worst part is that the version bisect suggests that does not have Git.xs may be a version in the past -- which we obviously cannot apply your patch to.