On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 3:36 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> + '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./doc-diff --clean > > > > This means I need a copy of git in order to run "make clean". That > > was never required before. It makes bootstrapping difficult --- do we > > really need it? > > Gahh, you are absolutely right. Also "doc-diff --clean", if I am > reading the code correctly, requires us to be in a Git repository, > not a tarball extract. > > Having to have Git installed, or be in a repository, in order to be > able to run an optional "doc-diff" tool is fine. Requiring either > in order to run "make clean" is a different story. > > Thanks for spotting. We can just prefix the line with '-'? Or does > the script badly misbehave (due to lack of CEILING_DIRECTORY) when > run in a tarball extract inside somebody else's repository? I did consider this case and felt that it would be reasonable for it to error out and ignore the error if git was missing or if the directory was not a repository. And, I _thought_ I had prefixed the line with "-" to handle just such a case, but apparently I botched it. Oh well.
