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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Question] .git folder file updates for changing head commit
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:28:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wngkpddp.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fa76f28-063b-8964-c0a2-642dae88f1b3@huawei.com> (John Garry's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:19:06 +0000")

On Mär 23 2022, John Garry wrote:

> For building the linux perf tool we use the git head commit id as part of
> the tool version sting. To save time in re-building, the Makefile rule has
> a dependency on .git/HEAD for rebuilding.

There is no guarantee that .git is a directory.  In a separate worktree
.git is actually a gitfile.

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Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-23 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-23 15:19 [Question] .git folder file updates for changing head commit John Garry
2022-03-23 20:25 ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-24 12:56   ` John Garry
2022-03-27 15:48   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-03-30 10:48     ` John Garry
2022-03-23 20:50 ` Glen Choo
2022-03-24 12:59   ` John Garry
2022-03-23 21:28 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2022-03-24 13:00   ` John Garry

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