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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>,
	Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: implement help target
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:47:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA20E24.90509@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqvxubl5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 28.09.2010 17:33:
> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> How's this for a version without maintenance issues?
> 
> Something along these lines would be closer to what I had in mind,
> actually.
> 
> Traditionally a multi-line sed command embed in Makefile has been
> portability nightmare, which is a bit worrysome.

Yes, but I thought for "make help" it's not such problem if it works on
most platforms only - others can read inline ;)

If portability is an issue one can work around it - is "grep -A 1"
portable? I'd also have to get rid of sort --key=2.

> Isn't there a "makedoc" ala "perldoc" or "javadoc", by the way?

There is a "makedoc" but that's something different...

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-28 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28  8:13 [PATCH] Makefile: Add help target Stephen Boyd
2010-09-28  9:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-28 11:37   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-28 12:35     ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-09-28 14:44       ` [PATCH] Makefile: implement " Michael J Gruber
2010-09-28 14:48         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-28 14:57           ` Zbyszek Szmek
2010-09-28 14:54         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-28 15:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-28 15:47           ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2010-09-28 16:04             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-28 20:38               ` [PATCHv2] " Michael J Gruber
2010-09-28 20:51                 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-28 21:24                 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-28 22:00                 ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-29  8:06                   ` Michael J Gruber
2010-09-29  5:16                 ` Jeff King
2010-09-29  7:03                   ` Michael J Gruber
2010-09-29  7:34                     ` Jeff King
2010-09-29 15:41                       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-29 20:15                         ` [PATCHv3] " Michael J Gruber
2010-09-29 20:39                           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-30  7:08                             ` Michael J Gruber
2010-09-29  6:10   ` [PATCH] Makefile: Add " yj2133011

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