Re: integrating make and git

[E R <pc88mxer@gmail.com>]

Ok - I was wrong about the timestamps not getting updated. Thanks for
that correction.

However, what about the idea of associating the result of a build with
the hash of the source files used by the build, and using git to
compute the hash?

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, E R wrote:
>
>> I have an idea about integrating make with git, and I'm wondering if
>> it is a reasonable thing to do.
>>
>> First of all, I am under the impression that git can quickly compute a
>> hash of a directory and its contents. Is that correct?
>>
>> If so, suppose you using git to manage revision control of a project
>> which has some components like 'lib1', 'lib2', etc. Typically you
>> would perform something like: make clean; make all and 'make all'
>> would perform 'make lib1' and 'make lib2'. When checking out a
>> different revision of the project you would have to perform another
>> 'make clean' before 'make all' since you aren't sure of what's changed
>> and the timestamps of the derived files will be more recent than the
>> timestamps of the source files.
>
> No, the timestamps of the changed source files will be newer than the
> timestamps of the derived files. Git doesn't backdate files in working
> directories, in order to avoid causing the problem you're trying to fix.
> (And because getting the history is so quick and easy with git that
> looking at dates on files in the filesystem is kind of pointless.)
>
>        -Daniel
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