REDO-ALWAYS(1)              General Commands Manual             REDO-ALWAYS(1)

NAME
       redo-always - mark the current redo target as always needing to be
       rebuilt

SYNOPSIS
       redo-always

DESCRIPTION
       redo(1) is a tool for building files and for rebuilding them if any of
       their dependencies have changed.  redo-always, when invoked from a
       dofile, adds a dependency on the current target that is impossible to
       satisfy. The target will always be rebuilt if given as an argument to
       redo-ifchange(1).

EXAMPLES
       Consider the following three dofiles all.do, b.do and c.do:

       all.do
              #!/bin/sh
              redo-ifchange b

       b.do
              #!/bin/sh
              redo-ifchange c
              sleep 1
              date +%s

       c.do
              #!/bin/sh
              redo-always
              date +%s

       Invoking redo(1) in a directory with these three files will build a
       file named c containing a timestamp and a file named b containing a
       timestamp that is at least one second later. Both b and c will always
       be rebuilt when redo(1) is invoked, as the default target all depends
       on b which in turn depends on c which has an impossible to satisfy
       dependency.

HISTORY
       redo-always was designed by Avery Pennarun as part of his redo
       implementation and implemented by Nils Dagsson Moskopp.

AUTHOR
       redo-always and this man page were written by Nils Dagsson Moskopp.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Nils Dagsson Moskopp.  License AGPLv3+: GNU
       Affero GPL version 3 or later
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html>.  This is free software:
       you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to
       the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       redo(1), redo-dot(1), redo-ifchange(1), redo-ifcreate(1), redo-ood(1),
       redo-sources(1), redo-stamp(1), redo-targets(1)

BUGS
       redo-always may break if the target filename contains a tab or a
       newline.

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