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Re: What will happen to git.git in the near future

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Oct 1, 2006, 20:23 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0610011318100.3952@g5.osdl.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0610012208410.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> The problem is that the Makefile does not realize that Git.xs no longer is 
> there. Neither does the code which recreates the Makefile.

No. The problem is that top-level dependency rules for perl/Makefile are simply _wrong_. It claims it depends on some things (which is true), but then it totally ignores _other_ things that it also depends on.

Further, even if it was right, the rules to actually _generate_ the Makefile then seems wrong, in that it cares about files it shouldn't care about in the first place.

So why do that at all? Why accept such crap?
			Linus
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  1. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2006
  3. Rene ScharfeSep 24, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2006
  5. A Large Angry SCMSep 24, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 1, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsOct 1, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 1, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsOct 1, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsOct 1, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 1, 2006

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