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authorEvan Martin <martine@danga.com>2013-04-10 16:43:07 (GMT)
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Ninja evaluates a graph of dependencies between files, and runs
-whichever commands are necessary to make your build target up to date.
-If you are familiar with Make, Ninja is very similar.
+whichever commands are necessary to make your build target up to date
+as determined by file modification times. If you are familiar with
+Make, Ninja is very similar.
A build file (default name: `build.ninja`) provides a list of _rules_
-- short names for longer commands, like how to run the compiler --