Re: [PATCH] Update hard-coded header dependencies

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

?  People using ancient compilers that never change headers wouldn't
be hurt, people using modern compilers that do change headers also
wouldn't be hurt, and we could stop pretending to maintain an
up-to-date list.

I agree that it is very tempting to declare that we do not manually
"maintain" the dependency list and force people without -MMD to
recompile whenever any unrelated header changes.  Especially that
this patch only works on the 'master' branch and upwards, and does
not even work on 'maint', let alone 1.9 or 1.8.5 maintenance tracks.

Let's consider the merit of that approach after 2.1 is out.  Thanks.

Actually "upwards" is not even true; the 'next' branch already wants
e.g. trace.h to build credential-store.o, which is not needed for
the 'master' branch.