From: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:06:55 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: More clarity in "empty" and "non-existent" difference
X-Git-Tag: v1.25.0~3
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.ru/?p=goredo.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a3672beade5d5f20f991bb0aba159110814bb31

More clarity in "empty" and "non-existent" difference
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diff --git a/doc/notes.texi b/doc/notes.texi
index b7e09e7..951a345 100644
--- a/doc/notes.texi
+++ b/doc/notes.texi
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ remarks about @command{goredo}'s one:
 @item @file{all} target is default
 @item @file{stdout} is always captured, but no target is created if it
     was empty
-@item empty targets are considered always out of date
+@item non-existent targets are considered always out of date
 @item @file{.do}'s @file{$3} is relative path to the file in target directory
 @item @file{.do} search goes up to @file{/} by default, but can be
     limited with either @env{$REDO_TOP_DIR} environment variable, or by
diff --git a/doc/rules.texi b/doc/rules.texi
index 786921c..6244047 100644
--- a/doc/rules.texi
+++ b/doc/rules.texi
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ default.b.c.do -> $2=a
     @code{$3} file. You have to produce either @code{stdout} output, or
     use @code{$3} directly, but not both.
 
-@item If there was no @code{stdout} output and no @code{$3} file is
-    explicitly created, then no output file is created at all. Target
-    does not produce anything, it is "empty".
+@item If neither @code{stdout} output nor @code{$3} file were
+    explicitly created, then no output file is created at all.
+    Target does not produce anything, it is "non-existent".
 
 @item @code{stderr} is not captured at all and can be seen by default.
 
-@item Empty targets are considered always out-of-date.
+@item Non-existent targets are considered always out-of-date.
 
 @item Dependency information is recorded by @command{redo-ifchange}
     command invocation. It takes list of dependencies (targets), on