Hi Taylor, On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Taylor Blau wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 04:56:53AM -0700, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > > > On Windows, for example, executables (must) have the extension `.exe`. > > Our `check-docs` target was not prepared for that. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > --- > > Makefile | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > > index 537493822b..df56bf0cd1 100644 > > --- a/Makefile > > +++ b/Makefile > > @@ -3074,7 +3074,7 @@ ALL_COMMANDS += git-gui git-citool > > .PHONY: check-docs > > check-docs:: > > $(MAKE) -C Documentation lint-docs > > - @(for v in $(ALL_COMMANDS); \ > > + @(for v in $(patsubst %$X,%,$(ALL_COMMANDS)); \ > > do \ > > case "$$v" in \ > > git-merge-octopus | git-merge-ours | git-merge-recursive | \ > > @@ -3103,7 +3103,7 @@ check-docs:: > > -e 's/\.txt//'; \ > > ) | while read how cmd; \ > > do \ > > - case " $(ALL_COMMANDS) " in \ > > + case " $(patsubst %$X,%,$(ALL_COMMANDS)) " in \ > > I'm a little late to reading this thread, but I was curious why there > are now two spaces around the patsubst as opposed to the one around > ALL_COMMANDS? Sharp eyes, and a *very* good point. The double space is actually required for this patch to work as intended. I added the following explanation to the commit message: Note that `$(ALL_COMMANDS)` starts with a space, and that is rather crucial for the `while read how cmd` loop: some of the input lines do not actually have the form `<how> <cmd>`, but only `<cmd>`, therefore `$cmd` evaluates to the empty string, and when we are looking for `* $cmd *` in ` $(ALL_COMMANDS)`, we do find it because the latter starts with a double space. In other words, the double space helps us skip the lines that list only a command. But in this patch, we want to transform `$(ALL_COMMANDS)` via `$(patsubst ...)` which swallows that double space. To help that, we prefix the result with *two* spaces instead of just one. Do you think that is good enough? Oh, and can I ask you to review *all* of my patches in the future? Thanks, Dscho