Re: [gambit-list] Separating generated files?

[Christian Jaeger <christian@pflanze.mine.nu>]

Santi Béjar wrote:
> It looks like the html and man branches of git.git.
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=shortlog;h=html
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=shortlog;h=man
>
> They are automatically generated when Junio pushes the branches to
> kernel.org. Afterwards you can do a "make quick-install-html" and
> install the preformated html pages from these branches. They are
> generated with the dodoc.sh script from the todo branch in git.git
> (look inside for instructions):
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob_plain;f=dodoc.sh;hb=todo

This script only generates the html / man branches, it doesn't help find 
the right version for a given git version, right?

The differences are:

- the html / man branches have a strictly linear history and are 
centrally maintained. This solves the distribution issue for end users. 
But while developping the compiler, the developers may need to go back 
in the history of their own development (e.g. when the current compiler 
doesn't work anymore), and the suspected usefulness of being able to see 
and track differences in the generated code also isn't available for a 
strictly central approach.

- the script above is only for creating and committing the derived 
files, in a hook similar to the one I suggested in 
build/.git/hooks/commit-msg; this is the "cd build; git commit -m 
'generated files for source repository commit
 > `git rev-parse HEAD`'" part; the more interesting part comes from 
automatically finding the right commit in the generated branches for a 
given source commit. This is what I intend to solve with the 
"intergit-find-matching-commit-in" script. Said in a simpler way: the 
git html / man branches do not offer automatically resolvable linking.

Christian.