Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 3/19/2007 6:19 PM:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Another feature: bootstrap adds .cvsignore and .gitignore
>> entries for files it supplies.
> 
> Good idea. It has annoyed me as well, but never reached the necessary pain
> level. Find attached a patch that implements the first part of it. The
> second part will be the handling of CLEANFILES and MOSTLYCLEANFILES.
> (Why isn't automake doing this, by the way: copying the list of CLEANFILES
> and MOSTLYCLEANFILES into .cvsignore and .gitignore?)

No attachment, but I see you applied the patch?  Also, I would prefer if
the updated ignore file were maintained in sorted order, rather than
appending new entries at the bottom.

Hmm, this means that .{cvs,git}ignore are now generated.  And the policy
of keeping generated files out of revision control becomes awkward (a user
who bootstraps from a different date in gnulib may have spurious
differences from the last checked-in version of the ignore list).  Maybe
that means that the bootstrap script should be smart enough on initial
checkout to create the lib/.cvsignore and m4/.cvsignore files with initial
contents of files actually kept under control (which means that the
bootstrap-created .cvsignore would include itself as something for CVS to
ignore), prior to running gnulib-tool which updates it to include all
remaining generated files.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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