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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by voltagex_ on Monday July 27, 2020 @08:43PM (#23971084)
How do you make sure your makefile tasks are idempotent?
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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by isaachier on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:02AM (#23972170)
A simple way is to use output files to indicate if a command has been run.

Example:

git-setup.out: touch $@

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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by shaklee3 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:08AM (#23972195)
Drop "done" files indicating a large step is done.
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