I've noticed that running "make" on a fully-built git tree still builds a lot of things: $ make >/dev/null 2>&1 && make GEN perl/PM.stamp SUBDIR gitweb GEN git-add--interactive GEN git-difftool GEN git-archimport GEN git-cvsexportcommit GEN git-cvsimport GEN git-cvsserver GEN git-relink GEN git-send-email GEN git-svn GEN git-p4 SUBDIR ../ make[2]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. GEN git-instaweb SUBDIR perl SUBDIR templates Here it is after this series: $ make >/dev/null 2>&1 && make SUBDIR perl SUBDIR templates The patches are: [1/3]: Makefile: drop dependency between git-instaweb and gitweb [2/3]: Makefile: avoid timestamp updates to GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS [3/3]: Makefile: silence perl/PM.stamp recipe -Peff -- 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