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Improve the incremental rebuilding support of "coccicheck" by piggy-backing on the computed dependency information of the corresponding *.o file, rather than rebuilding all <RULE>/<FILE> pairs if either their corresponding file changes, or if any header changes. This in effect uses the same method that the "sparse" target was made to use inc234e8a0ec(Makefile: make the "sparse" target non-.PHONY, 2021-09-23), except that the dependency on the *.o file isn't a hard one, we check with $(wildcard) if the *.o file exists, and if so we'll depend on it. This means that the common case of: make make coccicheck Will benefit from incremental rebuilding, now changing e.g. a header will only re-run "spatch" on those those *.c files that make use of it: By depending on the *.o we piggy-back on COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES. Seec234e8a0ec(Makefile: make the "sparse" target non-.PHONY, 2021-09-23) for prior art of doing that for the *.sp files. E.g.: make contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch make -W column.h contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch Will take around 15 seconds for the second command on my 8 core box if I didn't run "make" beforehand to create the *.o files. But around 2 seconds if I did and we have those "*.o" files. Notes about the approach of piggy-backing on *.o for dependencies: * It *is* a trade-off since we'll pay the extra cost of running the C compiler, but we're probably doing that anyway. The compiler is much faster than "spatch", so even though we need to re-compile the *.o to create the dependency info for the *.c for "spatch" it's faster (especially if using "ccache"). * There *are* use-cases where some would like to have *.o files around, but to have the "make coccicheck" ignore them. See: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220826104312.GJ1735@szeder.dev/ For those users a: make make coccicheck SPATCH_USE_O_DEPENDENCIES= Will avoid considering the *.o files. * If that *.o file doesn't exist we'll depend on an intermediate file of ours which in turn depends on $(FOUND_H_SOURCES). This covers both an initial build, or where "coccicheck" is run without running "all" beforehand, and because we run "coccicheck" on e.g. files in compat/* that we don't know how to build unless the requisite flag was provided to the Makefile. Most of the runtime of "incremental" runs is now spent on various compat/* files, i.e. we conditionally add files to COMPAT_OBJS, and therefore conflate whether we *can* compile an object and generate dependency information for it with whether we'd like to link it into our binary. Before this change the distinction didn't matter, but now one way to make this even faster on incremental builds would be to peel those concerns apart so that we can see that e.g. compat/mmap.c doesn't depend on column.h. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
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See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
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If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
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CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
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The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks