From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:56:08 GMT
Subject: Re: js/scalar, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #05; Mon, 18)
Message-ID: <xmqqr1c6t42v.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <211026.86lf2gym9u.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

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

> It's not that libgit.a isn't rebuilt, that part isn't broken, it's built
> by the top-level Makefile. It's that if you:
>
>     make -C contrib/scalar
>
> And then change anything it depends on, short of the top-level
> rebuilding libgit.a it won't be re-built, so for anyone hacking on it
> that Makefile is rather useless.

Is this merely an example, or is this the only thing you cared about
the build procedure?

>> I would still like to invite you to think along more productive lines.
>> It's not about where Scalar's build mechanics are right now. It's where we
>> can take _Git_ to do what Scalar already does.
>
> That's also interesting, but right now we're not discussing that
> subsequent set of patches, but your integration of scalar in-tree. Let's
> fix those issues first.