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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-11 16:25:21 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-11 16:25:21 +0100
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CONTRIBUTING: Use make(1)'s '-t' to avoid linting everything
Suggested-by: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> Cc: Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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@@ -135,12 +135,10 @@ Description
new warnings. However, you might still get warnings that are not your
fault. To minimize that, do the following steps:
- (1) Lint first all of the pages, so that make(1) knows that it only
- needs to lint again pages that you will touch. This example is
- shown with '-j' because it would take a long time (around a couple
- of minutes) to run without parallel execution.
+ (1) First use make(1)'s -t option, so that make(1) knows that it only
+ needs to lint again pages that you will touch.
- $ make -ij lint >/dev/null 2>&1
+ $ make -t lint
(2) Touch the page that you'll edit, and run make(1) again, to see
which warnings you'll still see from that page that are not your