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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: package_full_revision.txt and derived files
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: package_full_revision.txt and derived files |
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Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:11:19 -0800 |
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:00:03PM +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Something I've seen other Makefiles do is (in this example) to run
> 'monotone status' putting the output somewhere, and overwrite
> package_full_revision.txt only if the output differs from the old
> contents.
>
> Obviously one can add arbitrary hackiness to Makefiles in this way
> (with similarly obvious problems in keeping it working on all
> platforms). For the occasional issue like this it seems doable,
> though?
That's exactly what the patch Patrick sent in does, and it's applied
now :-) It wasn't that way in the first place just because I
misunderstood make's cleverness...
-- Nathaniel
--
"Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself
Outside the ordinary range
Of what are called statistics."
-- Stephan Spender
Re: [Monotone-devel] package_full_revision.txt and derived files, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2005/01/19
Re: [Monotone-devel] package_full_revision.txt and derived files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/01/19
[Monotone-devel] Re: package_full_revision.txt and derived files, Bruce Stephens, 2005/01/19
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: package_full_revision.txt and derived files,
Nathaniel Smith <=