From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:45:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets
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.