From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:41:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: create an install-symlinks target
Message-ID: <86y7hdkhnu.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <86bqe9lwy8.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Use this, for example, to do
> rm -rf /opt/git
> make prefix=/opt/git install
> make symlinkprefix=/usr/local prefix=/opt/git install-symlinks
> ---
>  Makefile |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Oh, by the way: I got _crazy_ when I first committed this, then found
a mistake and corrected it, and then repeatedly did
git add config/emacs/Makefile
git-commit --amend

and got the

>  Makefile |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

message again and again, while nothing at all changed.  Of course,
this was because I added the wrong Makefile.

I am not sure how git could be more helpful here.  Just wanted to
report it.  Maybe it could have noticed that my "amendment" was empty?
On the other hand, I might have wanted to amend the commit message.
Sigh.

-- 
David Kastrup