Description
Electric Make (emake) allows you to control the manner in which the history file will be used by the build:
-
read
mode means that emake reads the history file (if present) but does not update it when the build finishes. -
create
mode means that emake reads the history file (if present), but replaces it with a new history file containing only those dependencies discovered during the current build when the build finishes. -
merge
mode means that emake reads the history file (if present), and adds new discovered dependencies from the current build when the build finishes.
You may explicitly choose which of these modes to use with the
--emake-history
command-line option. By default, emake uses
merge
mode.