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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Makefile: add the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:36:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq35wb891a.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGQdpkHAcFR/zNOx@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:58:46 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I don't know how paranoid we want to be about this, especially the
> latter. My general inclination is to prefer "commit" systems as more
> robust, but it is just a Makefile.

;-)

As an old timer, I've written "gen >$@+ && mv $@+ $@" all the time
myself, but it is ugly and felt a bit too conservative.  I do not
think it is wise to overnight remove all the existing "generate in
temporary, move to the final" patterns and delegate $(MAKE) to take
care of failed generator with this mechanism, but I actually would
feel it probably gives us a cleaner Makefile in the longer term.  At
least "bugs in $(MAKE)" won't be our sole problem (i.e. all other
projects that rely on the feature would share the incentives to see
them fixed).


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-31 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-07 13:20 [PATCH] Makefile: generate 'git' as 'cc [...] -o git+ && mv git+ git' Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-07 20:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-08 12:38   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-08 17:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-08 18:26     ` Jeff King
2021-03-29 16:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Makefile: don't die on AIX with open ./git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 16:20   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] Makefile: rename objects in-place, don't clobber Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 18:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 18:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 23:24       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-30  0:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-31 14:17           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-31 18:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 16:20   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] Makefile: rename scripts " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 18:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 23:28       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 16:20   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] Makefile: don't needlessly "rm $@ $@+" before "mv $@+ $@" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 18:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 16:20   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] Makefile: add the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 18:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 23:31       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 23:58         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-30 15:11         ` Jeff King
2021-03-30 18:36           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-31  6:58             ` Jeff King
2021-03-31 18:36               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-03-31 22:29                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-29 16:20   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] Makefile: don't "rm configure" before generating it Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 16:31   ` [PATCH 0/6] Makefile: make non-symlink & non-hardlink install sane Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 16:31     ` [PATCH 1/6] Makefile: symlink the same way under "symlinks" and "no hardlinks" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 22:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 16:31     ` [PATCH 2/6] Makefile: begin refactoring out "ln || ln -s || cp" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 22:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 16:31     ` [PATCH 3/6] Makefile: refactor " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 22:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-30 15:20         ` Jeff King
2021-03-30 18:36           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 16:31     ` [PATCH 4/6] Makefile: make INSTALL_SYMLINKS affect the build directory Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 22:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-31 14:04         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 16:31     ` [PATCH 5/6] Makefile: use "ln -f" instead of "rm && ln" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 22:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 16:31     ` [PATCH 6/6] Makefile: add a INSTALL_FALLBACK_LN_CP mode Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 22:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-31 14:03         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-31 18:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-31 19:01             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-29 23:08     ` [PATCH 0/6] Makefile: make non-symlink & non-hardlink install sane Junio C Hamano

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