Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets

Jeff King wrote:

Did you read the argument in patch 2? They are almost certainly not
helping anyone, anyway.

Yes, I read patch 2. I hacked on git from time to time in the days
before COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES, and it sometimes involved changing
header files. When they were not in LIB_H, the experience was much
nicer.

Is that called "not helping"? I'm afraid I don't follow this line of
argument at all.

On the other hand, if someone were proposing adding a simple awk
script to implement a "make dep" fallback, I would understand that.