From ade82bd0b04a3282a538d99b3deaaf790e5bc42d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Weber Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:22:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document the change from #921 in the manual. --- doc/manual.asciidoc | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 217ff28..003c71e 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -920,9 +920,12 @@ Evaluation and scoping Top-level variable declarations are scoped to the file they occur in. +Rule declarations are also scoped to the file they occur in. +_(Available since Ninja 1.6)_ + The `subninja` keyword, used to include another `.ninja` file, introduces a new scope. The included `subninja` file may use the -variables from the parent file, and shadow their values for the file's +variables and rules from the parent file, and shadow their values for the file's scope, but it won't affect values of the variables in the parent. To include another `.ninja` file in the current scope, much like a C -- 2.7.4