Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add and use the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag

Taylor Blau wrote:

I do think that .DELETE_ON_ERROR is less robust when running "make" in
one terminal and inspecting the result in another, but I'm also not sure
how much we should be concerned about that. On the other hand, we lose
a nice property of our existing Makefile which is that you can always
run ./git and get a working binary. The new state is that you might see
a half-written binary.

How would that happen? First, the git target isn't changed, and second,
gcc (and presumably other compilers/linkers) wouldn't write the binary
if interrupted.

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Felipe Contreras