Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] Makefile: normalize clobbering & xargs for tags targets

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On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 06:43:13AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 01:23:06AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> > This is because the xargs command may decide to invoke the program
> > multiple times. We need to make sure we've got a union of its results
> > at the end.
> > 
> > For "ctags" and "etags" we used the "-a" flag for this, for cscope
> > that behavior is the default. Its "-u" flag disables its equivalent of
> > an implicit "-a" flag.
> 
> Hrm, that's not the experience I get with cscope. E.g.:

Just to make it extra clear: this is not a problem introduced by your
series, since we were already using xargs with cscope. But this seems
like a good time to fix it.

-Peff



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