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[PATCH] Documentation/Makefile: don't re-build on 'git version' changes

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 2, 2021, 11:58 UTC
Message-ID
<patch-1.1-911881ce19f-20210702T115617Z-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<874kdn1j6i.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Since 9a71722b4df (Doc: auto-detect changed build flags, 2019-03-17) we've been eagerly re-building the documentation whenever the output of "git version" (via the GIT-VERSION file) changed. This was never the intention, and was a regression on what we intended in 7b8a74f39cb (Documentation: Replace @@GIT_VERSION@@ in documentation, 2007-03-25).

So let's add an ASCIIDOC_MANVERSION variable that we exclude from ASCIIDOC_COMMON. The change in 9a71722b4df was only intending to catch cases where we e.g. switched between asciidoc and asciidoctor, not to undo the logic in 7b8a74f39cb and force a re-build every time our HEAD changed in the repository.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---

As a follow-up to https://lore.kernel.org/git/874kdn1j6i.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ I cut "make man" out of my "rebase -x" invocations, I could swear it didn't used to take so long. Turns out it didn't, and that its eagerness is a recent-ish regression.

This is what we used to do before v2.22.0, so I'm not too worried about the edge case discussed in the comment here. I think an improvement on this might be to e.g. force all the flags with a "make dist" or one of the install targets.

In practice I don't think there's many/any people who build releases that matter to anyone out of the checkout they've been using for their own development.

 Documentation/Makefile | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index f5605b7767f..6b3f0bb6c8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -137,11 +137,12 @@ ASCIIDOC_HTML = xhtml11
 ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook
 ASCIIDOC_CONF = -f asciidoc.conf
 ASCIIDOC_COMMON = $(ASCIIDOC) $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) $(ASCIIDOC_CONF) \
-		-amanversion=$(GIT_VERSION) \
 		-amanmanual='Git Manual' -amansource='Git'
+ASCIIDOC_MANVERSION = -amanversion=$(GIT_VERSION)
+ASCIIDOC_ALL = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) $(ASCIIDOC_MANVERSION)
 ASCIIDOC_DEPS = asciidoc.conf GIT-ASCIIDOCFLAGS
-TXT_TO_HTML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_HTML)
-TXT_TO_XML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK)
+TXT_TO_HTML = $(ASCIIDOC_ALL) -b $(ASCIIDOC_HTML)
+TXT_TO_XML = $(ASCIIDOC_ALL) -b $(ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK)
 MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl
 XMLTO = xmlto
 XMLTO_EXTRA =
@@ -333,6 +334,16 @@ mergetools-list.made: ../git-mergetool--lib.sh $(wildcard ../mergetools/*)
 		show_tool_names can_merge "* " || :' >mergetools-merge.txt && \
 	date >$@
 
+# We use $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) here, and not $(ASCIIDOC_ALL). We don't
+# want to include $(ASCIIDOC_MANVERSION) and have the documentation
+# re-built every time HEAD changes.
+#
+# This is a trade-off requiring a "clean" build of the documentation
+# for release purposes, in the future we might include the version if
+# there's a cheaper way to re-insert the "Source" version during
+# re-builds. If we detect that that's the only thing we changed we
+# could insert it with a cheap search/replacement against the existing
+# files.
 TRACK_ASCIIDOCFLAGS = $(subst ','\'',$(ASCIIDOC_COMMON):$(ASCIIDOC_HTML):$(ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK))
 
 GIT-ASCIIDOCFLAGS: FORCE
-- 
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  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 24, 2021
  2. Jeff KingJun 24, 2021
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 24, 2021
  4. Johannes SixtJun 24, 2021
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 25, 2021
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 25, 2021
  7. Jeff KingJun 29, 2021
  8. 0/8 Makefile: make command-list.h 2-5x as fast with -jNÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  9. 1/8 command-list.txt: sort with "LC_ALL=C sort"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  10. 2/8 generate-cmdlist.sh: trivial whitespace changeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  11. 3/8 generate-cmdlist.sh: spawn fewer processesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  12. 4/8 generate-cmdlist.sh: don't call get_categories() from category_list()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  13. 5/8 generate-cmdlist.sh: run "grep | sort", not "sort | grep"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  14. 6/8 generate-cmdlist.sh: replace for loop by printf's auto-repeat featureÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  15. Jeff KingOct 21, 2021
  16. Jeff KingOct 21, 2021
  17. 7/8 Makefile: stop having command-list.h depend on a wildcardÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  18. Jeff KingOct 21, 2021
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2021
  20. Øystein WalleOct 21, 2021
  21. 8/8 Makefile: assert correct generate-cmdlist.sh outputÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 20, 2021
  22. Jeff KingOct 20, 2021
  23. Taylor BlauOct 20, 2021
  24. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 20, 2021
  25. Jeff KingOct 20, 2021
  26. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 21, 2021
  27. Taylor BlauOct 21, 2021
  28. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 22, 2021
  29. Jeff KingOct 21, 2021
  30. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2021
  31. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 22, 2021
  32. Jeff KingOct 22, 2021
  33. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 22, 2021
  34. Eric SunshineOct 21, 2021
  35. 00/10 Makefile: make generate-cmdlist.sh much fasterÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  36. 01/10 command-list.txt: sort with "LC_ALL=C sort"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  37. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2021
  38. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 25, 2021
  39. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2021
  40. 02/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: trivial whitespace changeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  41. 03/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: spawn fewer processesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  42. 04/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: don't call get_categories() from category_list()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  43. 05/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: run "grep | sort", not "sort | grep"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  44. 06/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: replace for loop by printf's auto-repeat featureÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  45. 07/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: stop sorting category linesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  46. Jeff KingOct 25, 2021
  47. 08/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: do not shell out to "sed"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  48. Jeff KingOct 25, 2021
  49. Jeff KingOct 25, 2021
  50. 10/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: replace "cut", "tr" and "grep" with pure-shellÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  51. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2021
  52. 09/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: replace "grep' invocation with a shell versionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 22, 2021
  53. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2021
  54. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2021
  55. Taylor BlauOct 22, 2021
  56. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2021
  57. Jeff KingOct 25, 2021
  58. 00/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: make it (and "make") run fasterÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  59. 01/10 command-list.txt: sort with "LC_ALL=C sort"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  60. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2021
  61. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 6, 2021
  62. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2021
  63. 02/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: trivial whitespace changeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  64. 03/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: spawn fewer processesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  65. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2021
  66. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 6, 2021
  67. 04/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: don't call get_categories() from category_list()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  68. 05/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: run "grep | sort", not "sort | grep"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  69. 06/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: replace for loop by printf's auto-repeat featureÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  70. 07/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: stop sorting category linesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  71. 08/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: do not shell out to "sed"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  72. 09/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: replace "grep' invocation with a shell versionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  73. 10/10 generate-cmdlist.sh: don't parse command-list.txt thriceÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2021
  74. Felipe ContrerasJun 25, 2021
  75. Eric SunshineJun 29, 2021
  76. Øystein WalleJun 24, 2021
  77. Øystein WalleJun 24, 2021
  78. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 25, 2021
  79. Documentation/Makefile: don't re-build on 'git version' changesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 2, 2021
  80. Junio C HamanoJul 2, 2021
  81. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 3, 2021
  82. Junio C HamanoJul 5, 2021
  83. Felipe ContrerasJul 3, 2021
  84. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 3, 2021
  85. Felipe ContrerasJul 3, 2021
  86. Junio C HamanoJul 5, 2021
  87. Felipe ContrerasJul 6, 2021

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