Re: [PATCH] Makefile: conditionally include GIT-VERSION-FILE

[Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>]

On 07/12/20 12:39AM, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> 
> The 'clean' target is noticeably slow on cygwin, even for a 'do-nothing'
> invocation of 'make clean'. For example, the second 'make clean' given
> below:
> 
>   $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1
>   $ make clean
>   GITGUI_VERSION = 0.21.0.85.g3e5c
>   rm -rf git-gui lib/tclIndex po/*.msg
>   rm -rf GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT-GUI-VARS
>   $
> 
> has been timed at 1.934s on my laptop (an old core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz,
> 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD).
> 
> Notice that the Makefile, as part of processing the 'clean' target, is
> updating the 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' file.  This is to ensure that the
> $(GITGUI_VERSION) make variable is set, once that file had been included.
> However, the 'clean' target does not use the $(GITGUI_VERSION) variable,
> so this is wasted effort.
> 
> In order to eliminate such wasted effort, use the value of the internal
> $(MAKECMDGOALS) variable to only '-include GIT-VERSION-FILE' when the
> target is not 'clean'. (This drops the time down to 0.676s, on my laptop,
> giving an improvement of 65.05%).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
> ---

Applied to git-gui/master. Thanks.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav