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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>,
	"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] doc: allow the user to provide ASCIIDOC_EXTRA
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 05:39:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJ+WzATLCM8SW2GH@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJ+VGKUa0Kk3BRWQ@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 05:32:08AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 07:14:25AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> > Without `override` all additions will be ignored by make.
> 
> That's true of all of our Makefile variables. Is there a particular
> reason to give this one special treatment?

To go into further detail: usually we distinguish variables we use
internally from user-facing ones, and include the latter in the former.
I see a later patch wants to start passing ASCIIDOC_EXTRA on the
command-line, and we'd use two variables for that.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-15  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-14 12:14 [PATCH 00/11] doc: asciidoctor: direct man page creation and fixes Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 01/11] doc: allow the user to provide ASCIIDOC_EXTRA Felipe Contreras
2021-05-15  9:32   ` Jeff King
2021-05-15  9:39     ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-05-15 12:13       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17  8:57         ` Jeff King
2021-05-17 10:53           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 11:39             ` Jeff King
2021-05-17 16:50               ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 02/11] doc: doc-diff: allow more than one flag Felipe Contreras
2021-05-15  9:37   ` Jeff King
2021-05-15 12:11     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 03/11] doc: doc-diff: set docdate manually Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 15:43   ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-14 20:33     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 04/11] doc: use asciidoctor to build man pages directly Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 15:38   ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-14 20:26     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 05/11] doc: asciidoctor: add linkgit macros in man pages Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 06/11] doc: join mansource and manversion Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 07/11] doc: add man pages workaround for asciidoctor Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 08/11] doc: asciidoctor: add hack for xrefs Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 09/11] doc: asciidoctor: add hack to improve links Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 10/11] doc: asciidoctor: add support for baseurl Felipe Contreras
2021-05-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 11/11] doc: asciidoctor: cleanup man page hack Felipe Contreras

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