@Lady have you heard of sblg

@aescling i have not

@Lady static blog generation tool that expects you coordinate it with Makefiles

https://kristaps.bsd.lv/sblg/

@aescling nice, i already coordinate all my static site generation with makefiles

@aescling you read my blogpost right

@Lady not fully

@Lady oh right i do remember getting far enough to think about how touch(1)ing .grass would be redundant if the Makefile is sufficiently aware of sources and targets (and in fact, sblg documentation shows how to do that with the tool!)

@aescling yes, assuming that git ignores all build output you can do a subshell call in the makefile to get a list of targets and use that to build a bunch of rules for making those targets from their sources and then use a subcall to make to see if any targets are out of date before allowing a sync

or you could just touch .grass

@aescling i absolutely am planning on doing this level of complexity when i get around to building my encyclopedia software (and i'll look into sblg to see if it can help with that) but for a simple static site it's a lot easier to just regenerate every file on every make and not worry about any of the rest of it

@aescling this one doesn’t touch grass: https://git.ladys.computer/Shrine/blob/live:/GNUmakefile

@Lady owo