Re: [PATCH 2/8] Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 6, 2020, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqsg9mduuy.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <a654c95f-2367-5805-d4f8-56c466a141d4@ramsayjones.plus.com>

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes:

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>>     It's built around evals. In fact, I suspect you could build a
>>     function around eval that actually works similar to include, but
>>     lazy-loads the file only when one of its stubs is referenced. I.e.,
>>     something like:
>> 
>>       GIT_VERSION = $(eval include GIT-VERSION-FILE)
>> 
>>     would probably work (and for other includes, multiple variables
>>     could mention the same file; as soon as it gets included, it
>>     overwrites the stubs).
>> 
>
> Heh, in another reply in this thread, I mentioned that I had an alternate
> patch I was toying with.

Yup, I was wondering if you're going to present that variant, which I was more curious about.