Question about dist-cvs make targets

[Jonathan Underwood]

2010/1/7 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> As I proceed to port our make system over into fedpkg, I've ran across a
> couple targets that are giving me pause.
>
> Is anybody out there making use of the following targets?
>
> check
> export
> patch
> unused-patches
> unused-fedora-patches
>
> If so, please reply to which one, and in what scenario you use those
> targets.  Thanks!

I have used make patch quite a bit when developing patches. I guess
it's just a wrapper around gendiff though, so it maybe redundant i.e.
in my use case I could have been using gendiff.