version control for gnulib in the source tree?

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Dec-2009, Thorsten Meyer wrote:

| last time I built octave I found that git was needed to get
| libgnu.

Do you mean gnulib?

| I installed it and the build went fine. Now this morning I
| updated the sources and built again and got the messages below from
| ./autogen. From previous posts I had the impression that bootstrap
| should automatically update libgnu. This does not seem to happen in
| my case. Also I went to the libgnu folder afterwards and typed "git
| update" and, indeed, lots of files were updated from
| git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.  So is there something wrong or am I just
| stupid?

I submitted a patch to recognize mercurial in addition to CVS and git
the bootstrap script distributed with gnulib:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-11/msg00174.html

The patch has not been added to the mercurial sources yet (still
waiting on a copyright assignment and possibly finding out whether
this is the best way to determine whether a file is tracked).

I also thought the bootstrap script was supposed to update the gnulib
sources automatically, but that also doesn't appear to be happening
for me.  But I'm not sure what is the expected thing here.  I don't
think that we should check in any of the gnulib files (or the ones
that are copied to the libgnu directory) into Octave's hg archive.

jwe