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Re: tight-scope check confusion


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: tight-scope check confusion
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:20:18 -0800

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11 November 2013 14:30, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Glad you found it.
>> If you can find a good way to document it, I'd appreciate a patch.
>
>
> I can think of nothing better than a note in the source, by whoever wrote
> it, so it reflects their intention rather  than my half-baked guesses.

I'm the guilty party.
I did look at maint.mk around that rule, but didn't find a good,
fulfilling way to document that the whole thing feels like a house of
cards, and that it is nontrivial (as you've found) to diagnose
failures. I guess anything at all would be welcome.



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