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wishlist: automatic determination of what to rebuild #12

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A welded source tree stored in a single monolithic git repo has a major sanity/usability problem.

When you update your source tree (by pull/merge/whatever), how do you know what to rebuild?

Back in the day, before weld was on the scene, it was easy; muddle pull was wired in to the underlying VCS and this caused the relevant labels to be deasserted. Then you could just muddle redeploy your top-level deployment, and you're done. Easy.

When weld is in play, the muddle-VCS linkage is broken.

My known strategies to date are:

  1. Read the commit logs and deduce a list of packages to turn into a muddle rebuild invocation. This depends on being able to work out the list of packages quickly, and there not being too many changes.
  2. muddle rebuild _all. On this build tree that takes at least half an hour, even with a fully loaded ccache.

There must be a better way. Perhaps a clever git hook?

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