Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes: > The final goal is to make it easy to write Git commands in perl in the > contrib/ directory. It is currently possible to do so, but without the > benefits of Git's Makefile: adapt first line with $(PERL_PATH), > hardcode the path to Git.pm, ... > > We make the perl-related part of the Makefile available from directories > other than the toplevel so that: > > * Developers can include it, to avoid code duplication > > * Users can get a consistent behavior of "make install" > > Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> The goal may be worthy, but the split does not look quite right. What business do contrib/ scripts have knowing how gitweb and git-instaweb are built and what they depend on, for example? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html