On 2017-09-28 12:37:38, Jack Bates wrote:
> tags 868871 patch
> thanks
>
> I have the same request -- I had been using:
>
>> git config --global pager.log 'perl
>> /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight | less'
>
> That way my diff-highlight script was always up to date.
>
> I just APT-updated and it stopped working (since diff-highlight must now
> be built, as of this commit [1]).
>
> I think the following will resolve this, by running the diff-highlight
> Makefile when the package is built (following the pattern in
> debian/rules for other contrib things):
>
>> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
>> index f132a2605..ea018298b 100755
>> --- a/debian/rules
>> +++ b/debian/rules
>> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ build-stamp:
>> override_dh_auto_build-arch: build-stamp
>> $(MAKE) -C contrib/subtree all $(OPTS)
>> ln -s contrib/subtree/git-subtree
>> + $(MAKE) -C contrib/diff-highlight $(OPTS)
>>
>> override_dh_auto_test-arch:
>> test -z '$(TEST)' || \
Any reason why this hasn't been applied to the package just yet?
I'd be happy to do that in a NMU if there are no objections...
a.
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