Human in the loop, sounds good as Ford's revolution

Why do not use well organized Makefile instead of invent new junk. Is it a product placement?

Makefiles are bad with state that is not represented as files, right? I remember that I had to create "stamp" files with hashes and things like that to overcome this limitation.

There is also .PHONY, but that would make the rule to always be triggered. Maybe I'm misremembering, it's been a long time :)

Makefiles are for building artifacts. They are wholly inadequate at orchestrating environments and task pipelines.

Can you do it? Sure, but somewhere someone is going to be suffering.

Better yet, use a well organized "rm -rf" command!

Refactoring advice: "The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there." — Gordon Bell

Linux/UNIX

I love dotfiles, my dream is to create a popular dotfile as the great .bashrc. This mission motivated me to create the DIST(dot)SH project (https://github.com/javanile/dist.sh). This is a tool for creating software bundles (ZIP files so to speak) based on a manifest called '.distfile'.

As for the popular '.gitignore' the '.distfile' as a convenient syntax for bundle complex package with custom file structure or ignoring specific files, or anything else that could get into it by mistake

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