On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:02:11AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Hrm, one reason I made the generated files read-only is to avoid > accidentally editing the generated copy, and then losing the resulting > changes when the file is recreated (as happened several times with the > test_script file, when rebasing the patch). I'd prefer to mark the > generated files read-only, and then have the Makefile rules delete the > file before recreating it. I tend to just edit the foo.in file; the Makefile dependencies automatically take care of rebuiling the test_one and test_script files --- and it's much easier just to type "make" to retry the generated scripts.... > That avoids accidentally having developers edit the file, while allowing > the always-remembering Makefile rule to recreate the file without errors. Yeah, but I don't want to encourage developers editing generated files... it's much better to make things much more convenient for them to do things in the "right" way. In the long run that's much more effective at avoiding lost work, and it saves you effort (since otherwise you might forget to fix the foo.in file before you commit the change, etc.) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
