build: regenerate config-list.h when Documentation changes

The Meson-based build doesn't know when to rebuild config-list.h, so the header is sometimes stale. For example, an old build directory might have config-list.h from before 4173df5187 (submodule: introduce extensions.submodulePathConfig, 2026-01-12), which added submodule.<name>.gitdir to the list. Without it, t9902-completion.sh fails. Regenerating the config-list.h artifact from sources fixes the artifact and the test. Since Meson does not have (or want) builtin support for globbing like Make, teach generate-configlist.sh to also generate a list of Documentation files its output depends on, and incorporate that into the Meson build. We honor the undocumented GCC/Clang contract of outputting empty targets for all the dependencies (like they do with -MP). That is, generate lines like build/config-list.h: $SOURCE_DIR/Documentation/config.adoc $SOURCE_DIR/Documentation/config.adoc: We assume that if a user adds a new file under Documentation/config then they will also edit one of the existing files to include that new file, and that will trigger a rebuild. Also mark the generator script as a dependency. While we're at it, teach the Makefile to use the same "the script knows it's dependencies" logic. For Meson, combining the following commands helps debug dependencies: ninja -C <builddir> -t deps config-list.h ninja -C <builddir> -t browse config-list.h The former lists all the dependencies discovered from our output ".d" file (the config documentation) and the latter shows the dependency on the script itself, among other useful edges in the dependency graph. Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

D. Ben Knoble committed Feb 24, 2026 at 09:39 UTC ebeea3c471c82638170764989d57d9dc24cc7450
3 files changed +22 -4
Makefile
+3 -2
@@ -2687,9 +2687,10 @@ $(BUILT_INS): git$X
2687 cp $< $@
2688
2689 config-list.h: generate-configlist.sh
2690 + @mkdir -p .depend
2691 + $(QUIET_GEN)$(SHELL_PATH) ./generate-configlist.sh . $@ .depend/config-list.h.d
2692
2691 -config-list.h: Documentation/*config.adoc Documentation/config/*.adoc
2692 - $(QUIET_GEN)$(SHELL_PATH) ./generate-configlist.sh . $@
2693 +-include .depend/config-list.h.d
2694
2695 command-list.h: generate-cmdlist.sh command-list.txt
2696
generate-configlist.sh
+15 -1
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
2
3 SOURCE_DIR="$1"
4 OUTPUT="$2"
5 +DEPFILE="$3"
6
7 if test -z "$SOURCE_DIR" || ! test -d "$SOURCE_DIR" || test -z "$OUTPUT"
8 then
8 - echo >&2 "USAGE: $0 <SOURCE_DIR> <OUTPUT>"
9 + echo >&2 "USAGE: $0 <SOURCE_DIR> <OUTPUT> [<DEPFILE>]"
10 exit 1
11 fi
12
@@ -36,3 +37,16 @@ EOF
37 echo
38 print_config_list
39 } >"$OUTPUT"
40 +
41 +if test -n "$DEPFILE"
42 +then
43 + QUOTED_OUTPUT="$(printf '%s\n' "$OUTPUT" | sed 's,[&/\],\\&,g')"
44 + {
45 + printf '%s\n' "$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/*config.adoc \
46 + "$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/config/*.adoc |
47 + sed -e 's/[# ]/\\&/g' -e "s/^/$QUOTED_OUTPUT: /"
48 + printf '%s:\n' "$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/*config.adoc \
49 + "$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/config/*.adoc |
50 + sed -e 's/[# ]/\\&/g'
51 + } >"$DEPFILE"
52 +fi
meson.build
+4 -1
@@ -720,11 +720,14 @@ endif
720
721 builtin_sources += custom_target(
722 output: 'config-list.h',
723 + depfile: 'config-list.h.d',
724 + depend_files: [ 'generate-configlist.sh' ],
725 command: [
726 shell,
725 - meson.current_source_dir() + '/generate-configlist.sh',
727 + meson.current_source_dir() / 'generate-configlist.sh',
728 meson.current_source_dir(),
729 '@OUTPUT@',
730 + '@DEPFILE@',
731 ],
732 env: script_environment,
733 )