Re: [PATCH 2/3] Makefile: use `find` to determine static header dependencies

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:54:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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Actually as you are not excluding CVS, RCS, etc., and using ??* as
the starting point will exclude .git, .hg, etc. at the top, I think
we can shorten it even further and say

	find ??* -name Documentation -prune -o -name \*.h

or something.

I had originally considered starting with "find *", but I was worried
about shell globbing overflowing command-line limits here. "echo *" on a
built tree is about 12K.

OK.  What I queued is still your original which is the most
conservative among various "fun" alternatives we have seen so far on
this thread, so we should be good ;-)

The only thing I think mine does not do that Jonathan suggested is
dropping .hg, etc. I do not know why anyone would track git in hg, but
it might make sense to s/.git/.?/ in what I sent.

(I noticed also that you did not queue the third patch to drop
CHECK_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES; I'm OK if we keep it, but I wanted to make
sure it was not an oversight).

It started as "I just ran out of time to really think about it" and
transitioned to "Ahh, I forgot that I postponed deciding" ;-)