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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] doc: remove unnecessary rm instances
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 05:24:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJ+TQiYVgocUBQRV@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210514115631.503276-4-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 06:56:29AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> Commits 50cff52f1a (When generating manpages, delete outdated targets
> first., 2007-08-02) and f9286765b2 (Documentation/Makefile: remove
> cmd-list.made before redirecting to it., 2007-08-06) created these rm
> instances for a very rare corner-case: building as root by mistake.
> 
> It's odd to have workarounds here, but nowhere else in the Makefile--
> which already fails in this stuation, starting from
> Documentation/technical/.

Aren't there tons more that you end up removing in the next patch? E.g.:

   doc.dep : $(docdep_prereqs) $(DOC_DEP_TXT) build-docdep.perl
  -       $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
  -       $(PERL_PATH) ./build-docdep.perl >$@+ $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
  -       mv $@+ $@
  +       $(QUIET_GEN)$(PERL_PATH) ./build-docdep.perl >$@ $(QUIET_STDERR)

That does differ in that it removes $@+, too, but the premise is the
same (we know that $@+ could not be a problem, as we're about to
clobber it anyway).

I'm OK with getting rid of all of them, but it seems like it ought to be
happening all in this patch.

(And in general the rest of the series looks OK to me).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-15  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-14 11:56 [PATCH v2 0/5] doc: asciidoc cleanups Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] doc: refactor common asciidoc dependencies Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] doc: improve " Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] doc: remove unnecessary rm instances Felipe Contreras
2021-05-15  9:24   ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-05-15 12:04     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17  8:53       ` Jeff King
2021-05-17 10:42         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 11:40           ` Jeff King
2021-05-14 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] doc: simplify Makefile using .DELETE_ON_ERROR Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] doc: avoid using rm directly Felipe Contreras

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