diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore
index dad52b80d3..9fef490871 100644
--- a/Documentation/.gitignore
+++ b/Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 *.1
 *.7
 howto-index.txt
+doc.dep
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index bb9533ff03..f45a062469 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -53,21 +53,19 @@ install: man
 #
 # Determine "include::" file references in asciidoc files.
 #
-TEXTFILES = $(wildcard *.txt)
-DEPFILES = $(TEXTFILES:%.txt=%.dep)
+TEXTFILES = $(wildcard git-*.txt)
+doc.dep : $(TEXTFILES) build-docdep.perl
+	rm -f $@+ $@
+	perl ./build-docdep.perl >$@+
+	mv $@+ $@
 
-%.dep : %.txt
-	@rm -f $@
-	@$(foreach dep, $(shell grep include:: $< | sed -e 's/include::/ /' -e 's/\[\]//'), \
-		echo $(<:%.txt=%.html) $(<:%.txt=%.1) : $(dep) >> $@; )
-
--include $(DEPFILES)
+-include doc.dep
 
 git.7: ../README
 
 
 clean:
-	rm -f *.xml *.html *.1 *.7 howto-index.txt howto/*.html *.dep
+	rm -f *.xml *.html *.1 *.7 howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep
 
 %.html : %.txt
 	asciidoc -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf $<
diff --git a/Documentation/build-docdep.perl b/Documentation/build-docdep.perl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..dedef765af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/build-docdep.perl
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+my %include = ();
+
+for my $text (<git-*.txt>) {
+    open I, '<', $text || die "cannot read: $text";
+    (my $base = $text) =~ s/\.txt$//;
+    while (<I>) {
+	if (/^include::/) {
+	    chomp;
+	    s/^include::\s*//;
+	    s/\[\]//;
+	    $include{$base}{$_} = 1;
+	}
+    }
+    close I;
+}
+
+# Do we care about chained includes???
+
+while (my ($base, $included) = each %include) {
+    my ($suffix) = '1';
+    if ($base eq 'git') {
+	$suffix = '7'; # yuck...
+    }
+    print "$base.html $base.$suffix : ", join(" ", keys %$included), "\n";
+}
+