Index: tools/gn/variables.cc |
diff --git a/tools/gn/variables.cc b/tools/gn/variables.cc |
index 3c717d82ed60346525b47141581c1cef0e613b35..7b2c4a088f7c6b1947e0edff16f022f7055b936b 100644 |
--- a/tools/gn/variables.cc |
+++ b/tools/gn/variables.cc |
@@ -1048,13 +1048,11 @@ const char kInputs_Help[] = |
" files in a target are compiled. So if you depend on generated headers,\n" |
" you do not typically need to list them in the inputs section.\n" |
"\n" |
- " Inputs for binary targets will be treated as order-only dependencies,\n" |
- " meaning that they will be forced up to date before compiling or\n" |
- " any files in the target, but changes in the inputs will not\n" |
- " necessarily force the target to compile. This is because it is\n" |
- " expected that the compiler will report the precise list of input\n" |
- " dependencies required to recompile each file once the initial build\n" |
- " is done.\n" |
+ " Inputs for binary targets will be treated as implicit dependencies,\n" |
+ " meaning that changes in any of the inputs will force all sources in\n" |
+ " the target to be recompiled. If an input only applies to a subset of\n" |
+ " source files, you may want to split those into a separate target to\n" |
+ " avoid unnecessary recompiles.\n" |
"\n" |
"Example\n" |
"\n" |