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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: add check-headers target
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:24:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqk35bo0bh.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq38bzieqj.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:09:56 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:57:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>>> ...
>>> > for header in .h ewah/*.h vcs-svn/*.h xdiff/*.h
>>> > do
>>> > 	...
>>> > done
>>> 
>>> Yes, that would be even better.  Then you wouldn't even have to
>>> worry about $IFS dance.
>>
>> The original motivation was to avoid picking up the generated
>> common-cmds.h header file.
>
> 	for header
>         do
>         	case "$header" in $exceptions) continue ;; esac
> 		...
> 	done
>
> with comments describing why these exceptions are made would be a
> better way to go in such a case.

+1 from me. It would allow developers to use the rule without "git
add"-ing new .h files, and the comment would document why the
exceptions are there (which missed in the original patch IMHO).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-10 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-07  0:30 [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: add check-headers target David Aguilar
2014-09-07  0:30 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] headers: include dependent headers David Aguilar
2014-09-07  6:41   ` René Scharfe
2014-09-07 19:49   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-09-07 19:54     ` Johannes Sixt
2014-09-07 20:01       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-09-07 20:30     ` David Aguilar
2014-09-07 19:42 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: add check-headers target Jonathan Nieder
2014-09-08 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-08 19:29   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-09-08 19:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-10  0:03       ` David Aguilar
2014-09-10 17:09         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-10 17:24           ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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