Re: Branches & directories

On 3 October 2011 00:32, Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

Hilco Wijbenga [off-list ref] writes:

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Yes, I meant it literally. And, no, Git could not possibly know so it
would have to be optional behaviour. But it's probably a lot of work
for (for most people) little gain.

Not only little gain, but also important risk: users of this feature
would be likely to spend hours debugging something just because some
files weren't recompiled at the right time.

Possibly. When I do a git pull or similar I do a full build
regardless. I don't know of any build tool that triggers a build
because of a deleted source file (that's an actual problem I ran into
only a couple of weeks ago). Of course, in that scenario the build was
succeeding where it should have been failing. :-)

If you want to optimize the number of files compiled by "make", then
ccache is your friend. This one is safe.

This is all C, right? I'm in Java land so I would assume ccache is of
no use to me. And we certainly don't use make.