Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2012, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFzf2XwmZo4ErG_9w0m66k4OPtDr_4_xvATL_6sOo8QVg0DhJA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120620193638.GA32418@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> Did you read the argument in patch 2? They are almost certainly not
> helping anyone, anyway.

Yes, I read patch 2. I hacked on git from time to time in the days before COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES, and it sometimes involved changing header files. When they were not in LIB_H, the experience was much nicer.

Is that called "not helping"? I'm afraid I don't follow this line of argument at all.

On the other hand, if someone were proposing adding a simple awk script to implement a "make dep" fallback, I would understand that.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.