Re: [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: don't use "FORCE" for tags targets

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 22, 2021, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID: <YNI5xsHWqOd3kv1y@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <patch-3.3-67fc87665d6-20210622T141844Z-avarab@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 04:21:27PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> Remove the "FORCE" dependency from the "tags", "TAGS" and "cscope.out"
> targets, instead make them depend on whether or not the relevant
> source files have changed.
> 
> I'm also removing the "-o" option from them, that seems to have been
> cargo-culted when they were initially added in f81e7c626f3 (Makefile:
> Add TAGS and tags targets, 2006-03-18). It would make sense to use
> that option if we had been appending to tag files, it doesn't make any
> sense that it was used after we'd just removed the files file being
> appended to.

You mean "-a" in this second paragraph, right?

I think it would help if xargs splits the source file list across multiple invocations of the command.

-Peff