From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:08:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Makefile: use `find` to determine static header dependencies
Message-ID: <xmqq4mx0kyrx.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140825212705.GU20185@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> Wouldn't it be sufficient to start digging not from "*" but from
>> "??*"?
>
> Gah, the * was supposed to be . in my examples (though it doesn't
> hurt).
>
>> 	find ??* \( -name Documentation -o -name .\?\* \) -prune -o -name \*.h
>
> Heh.  Yeah, that would work. ;-)

Continuing useless discussion...

Actually as you are not excluding CVS, RCS, etc., and using ??* as
the starting point will exclude .git, .hg, etc. at the top, I think
we can shorten it even further and say

	find ??* -name Documentation -prune -o -name \*.h

or something.

...and time to go back to something more serious and practical.

Don't we want to exclude contrib/ by the way?