Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 09:57:03AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> Victor Kaplansky <vict...@redhat.com> writes: >> <snip> >> > >> > As a hack, we also touch two sources for generated *.hex files. This is >> > to ensure *.hex rebuild, when old revision is switched to the new one. >> >> While I'm sure this was useful for testing do we really want to include >> such a hack in the git history? > > This is the hint for why it's needed there: > "This is to ensure *.hex rebuild, when old revision is switched to the > new one." > Maybe add this, making this more explicit: > Without this hack, anyone doing "git pull; make" will not get *.hex > rebuilt > correctly since the dependency file would be missing.
Ahh that makes more sense :-) -- Alex Bennée
