Hi Peff, On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, Jeff King wrote: > (did you know that the vcxproj rule manually builds and git-adds > command-list.h? No idea what is going on there), The idea of this is that contributors can clone the `vs/master` branch from Git for Windows repository, check it out, and open it in Visual Studio, then build. Meaning: we cannot use any Unix shell scripts or Makefile targets to generate _anything_. That's just not an option. It is such a foreign concept in Visual Studio projects, it is very much Unix-y to think that everything uses `make` anyway and everybody has access to a Unix shell interpreter and the many Unix tools including `sed`, `awk`, etc. Therefore we pre-generate all of those generated files, commit them, and the user does not have to worry about getting ~700MB worth of compressed data, unpack that to a ~2GB build environment that I like to call "Git for Windows SDK", _just_ to generate those files. That's what's going on there. Ciao, Dscho
