Re: [PATCHv3 04/11] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets

Jeff King wrote:

                                                     These
flags may sometimes require extra dependencies to be added
(e.g., like GIT-VERSION-FILE; this is not the case for any
of the updated lines in this patch, but it is establishing a
style that will be used in later patches).

[...] 

This patch explicitly does not update the static header
dependencies used when COMPUTED_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES is off.

I think you are asking the commit message to do more work than it
needs to, and to answer questions that no one just trying to
understand the patch would ask. :)

Wouldn't it be simpler to put the ground rules in a comment or a
document somewhere under Documentation/ where they can be easily
found?

Hope that helps,
Jonathan