From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:48:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Makefile: don't re-build on 'git version' changes
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.