Re: [PATCH 2/3] Makefile: use `find` to determine static header dependencies

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2014, 16:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqiolfjio4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140826123427.GD29180@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

Show 11 quoted lines

>> 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.
>
> I had originally considered starting with "find *", but I was worried
> about shell globbing overflowing command-line limits here. "echo *" on a
> built tree is about 12K.

OK. What I queued is still your original which is the most conservative among various "fun" alternatives we have seen so far on this thread, so we should be good ;-)

Thanks.