Re: [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: use `git ls-files` to list header files, if possible

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 08:57:57PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi Peff,
> 
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 04:36:19PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> > 
> > > > This has one notable consequence: we no longer include
> > > > `command-list.h` in `LIB_H`, as it is a generated file, not a
> > > > tracked one.
> > > 
> > > We should be able to add back $(GENERATED_H) as appropriate. I see you
> > > did it for the non-computed-dependencies case. Couldn't we do the same
> > > for $(LOCALIZED_C) and $(CHK_HDRS)?
> > 
> > Answering my own question somewhat: $(CHK_HDRS) explicitly ignores the
> > generated headers, so we wouldn't want to bother re-adding it there
> > anyway. Possibly $(LOCALIZED_C) would care, though. The generated file
> > does have translatable strings in it.
> 
> Yes, and it is defined thusly:
> 
> 	LOCALIZED_C = $(C_OBJ:o=c) $(LIB_H) $(GENERATED_H)
> 
> So it does include the generated headers explictly anyway, with or without
> my patch.

Oops, I should have read the source more carefully before responding.

Is it worth mentioning in the commit message? I.e., something like:

   This has one notable consequence: we no longer include
   `command-list.h` in `LIB_H`, as it is a generated file, not a tracked
   one, but that is easily worked around. Of the three sites that use
   `LIB_H`, two (`LOCALIZED_C` and `CHK_HDRS`) already handle generated
   headers separately. In the third, the computed-dependency fallback,
   we can just add in a reference to $(GENERATED_H).

-Peff