Subject: [PATCH] diff-highlight: link to diff-highlight in DESTDIR #Makefile #diff-highlight

From: "immeëmosol via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:03:19 +0000

From: =?UTF-8?q?imme=C3=ABmosol?= <[email-masked]>

Make git's diff-highlight program immediately available to the command-line.
Create a link in DESTDIR that
refers to the generated/concatenated diff-highlight perl script

Signed-off-by: immeëmosol <[email-masked]>
---
    add symlinking diff-highlight into DESTDIR
    
    In order to immediately make git's diff-highlight program available for
    command-line instructions; add a symlink to the generated/concatenated
    diff-highlight perl script(s) in DESTDIR

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-938%2Fimme-emosol%2Fpatch-1-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-938/imme-emosol/patch-1-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/938

 contrib/diff-highlight/Makefile | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/Makefile b/contrib/diff-highlight/Makefile
index f2be7cc9243..10c588a7929 100644
--- a/contrib/diff-highlight/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/Makefile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ diff-highlight: shebang.perl DiffHighlight.pm diff-highlight.perl
 	cat $^ >$@+
 	chmod +x $@+
 	mv $@+ $@
+	ln --symbolic --target-directory=$(DESTDIR) $(abspath $@)
 
 shebang.perl: FORCE
 	@echo '#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)' >$@+
@@ -19,5 +20,6 @@ test: all
 
 clean:
 	$(RM) diff-highlight
+	$(RM) --force $(DESTDIR)diff-highlight
 
 .PHONY: FORCE

base-commit: ef8ce8f3d4344fd3af049c17eeba5cd20d98b69f
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