4261cec435a67f5a86a9dd5268aef9bdab66e84d
max
  Fri Apr 25 15:42:59 2025 -0700
falling back to find in makefile if gitFiles is not present, which is the case for all mirrors

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/makefile src/hg/htdocs/makefile
index 74a1a1eb1ff..f0dbf3e1d17 100644
--- src/hg/htdocs/makefile
+++ src/hg/htdocs/makefile
@@ -1,63 +1,68 @@
 kentSrc = ../..
 include ../../inc/common.mk
 
 GIT = git
 GITUP = ${GIT} pull
 
 ifeq (${FIND},)
     INSIDEGIT := $(shell git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree 2>/dev/null)
+    HASGITFILES := $(shell which gitFiles && echo true)
+
+    # Default to using find: Mirrors do not have the program 'gitFiles'. Also gitFiles is not needed anyways.
+    # Also, when gitFiles is not present, the make target would silently fail and do nothing.
+    FIND = find
     ifeq (${INSIDEGIT},true)
+        ifeq (${HASGITFILES},true)
     	    FIND = gitFiles
-    else
-	FIND = find
+        endif
     endif
 endif
 
 # if you need to pick up files not checked-in yet for rsync,
 # you can run it like this:
 #
 #   make FIND=find
 #
 # but be careful as it will rsync everything over including junk
 
 # REMEMBER: HTDOCSEXTRA 
 # htdocsExtra is a repository that contains large files that we
 # do not wish to burden the main kent repo with.
 # You can check it out and make there too.
 # If you think there is a file missing, see if it is under the htdocsExtra repo.
 
 ifeq (${DOCUMENTROOT_USER},)
     DOCUMENTROOT_USER=${DOCUMENTROOT}-${USER}
 endif
 
 user:
 	if test -d ${DOCUMENTROOT_USER}; then \
 	    ${MAKE} doInstall destDir=${DOCUMENTROOT_USER} ; \
 	fi
 
 alpha:
 	${MAKE} doInstall destDir=${DOCUMENTROOT} 
 
 beta:
 	@if [ "${FIND}" = "find" ] ; then echo Error: FIND=find not allowed with make beta >& 2 ; exit 1 ; fi
 	${GITUP}
 	cp -p --remove-destination ${DOCUMENTROOT}/assemblyRequest.html ${DOCUMENTROOT}-beta/assemblyRequest.html
 	${MAKE} doInstall destDir=qateam@hgwbeta:${DOCUMENTROOT} 
 	${MAKE} doInstall destDir=${DOCUMENTROOT}-beta
 	rsync --chmod=Fu=rwx,Fg=rwx,Fo=rx --whole-file --times -a ${DOCUMENTROOT}-beta/assemblyRequest.html qateam@hgwbeta:${DOCUMENTROOT}/
 
 # Run rsync. Care is taken to preserve times and modes on files.  rsync is
 # smart about recreating files under the current users so that times and
 # permissions may be modified.  However, problems happen when a directory
 # is not owned by the current users.  These options attemp to work around it.
 # use care in changing
 rsyncOpts = --whole-file --times --recursive --omit-dir-times --relative --cvs-exclude --exclude='makefile' --exclude='cpAndLinkToResourceFiles.pl' --exclude='style/*'
 doInstall:
 	umask 002; rsync ${rsyncOpts} ${excl} ${incl} `$(FIND)` ${destDir}
 
 # Other targets that may be invoked by ../makefile:
 compile:
 
 install: alpha
 
 clean: