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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2021, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqczrwmtiq.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <87pmvz8v1u.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> I think nobody's doing such a "chained" build when building the docs for
> a "real" release, and having mixed versions might be confusing, but for
> the "local build" case from a development checkout it's arguably more
> useful.

Well, when I prepare a cascade of maintenance releases for CVE, what do you think is done? Yes, I do have "make distclean" in the loop that iterates over the maint-$version branches, just to be extra careful, but I shouldn't have to.

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