From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Subject: vcxproj target, was Re: [PATCH] Makefile: drop GEN_HDRS
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:35:58 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1912171231450.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191217052812.GB2762303@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Hi Peff,
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, Jeff King wrote:
> (did you know that the vcxproj rule manually builds and git-adds
> command-list.h? No idea what is going on there),
The idea of this is that contributors can clone the `vs/master` branch
from Git for Windows repository, check it out, and open it in Visual
Studio, then build.
Meaning: we cannot use any Unix shell scripts or Makefile targets to
generate _anything_. That's just not an option. It is such a foreign
concept in Visual Studio projects, it is very much Unix-y to think that
everything uses `make` anyway and everybody has access to a Unix shell
interpreter and the many Unix tools including `sed`, `awk`, etc.
Therefore we pre-generate all of those generated files, commit them, and
the user does not have to worry about getting ~700MB worth of compressed
data, unpack that to a ~2GB build environment that I like to call "Git
for Windows SDK", _just_ to generate those files.
That's what's going on there.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-17 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-13 23:25 [PATCH] Makefile: drop GEN_HDRS Junio C Hamano
2019-12-14 0:38 ` Jeff King
2019-12-14 1:00 ` Jeff King
2019-12-16 18:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-16 19:20 ` Jeff King
2019-12-17 1:27 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-17 1:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-12-17 5:22 ` Jeff King
2019-12-17 1:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-12-17 5:28 ` Jeff King
2019-12-17 11:35 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2019-12-19 4:51 ` vcxproj target, was " Jeff King
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