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Re: Having generated files in cvs?
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Thomas Schwinge |
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Re: Having generated files in cvs? |
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 00:21:07 +0100 |
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Hello!
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:55:21PM +0100, I wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:21:14PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > BTW, why is the CVS holding generated files like configure & co? Since
> > we all have variouns versios of autoconf/automake, the cvs diff output
> > is cluttered with useless hooks.
>
> Correct. I followed that practice of the previous committers to the
> trees. It has both advantages and disadvantages. You listed a
> disadvantage. An advantage is that we can easily tell people: ``Get the
> `gnumach-1-branch' from cvs and compile that one.'' without having to
> worry if they have suitable versions of the Auto* tools installed. I
> don't know if that is really a strong argument, though.
(If this situation shour really occur somewhen, it'd also be enough to
run a ``make dist'' and provide the person with the resulting tarball.)
> I don't have a general objection against changing that practice.
>
> What are others's opinions?
Others's opinions were also to remove all (?) generated files from the
revision control system.
Are there any Hurd maintainers to disagree?
Regards,
Thomas
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- [task #5468] Port GNU Mach to the Xen VMM, Samuel Thibault, 2007/01/01
- Re: [task #5468] Port GNU Mach to the Xen VMM, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/01/02
- Re: [task #5468] Port GNU Mach to the Xen VMM, Samuel Thibault, 2007/01/02
- Having generated files in cvs?, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/01/03
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, Richard Braun, 2007/01/03
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, olafBuddenhagen, 2007/01/04
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, Samuel Thibault, 2007/01/08
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?,
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- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, Roland McGrath, 2007/01/08
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, Samuel Thibault, 2007/01/08
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/01/10
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, Samuel Thibault, 2007/01/10
- Re: Having generated files in cvs?, Leonardo Lopes Pereira, 2007/01/10
- Xen vs. GRUB, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/01/03
- Re: Xen vs. GRUB, Samuel Thibault, 2007/01/08
- Re: Xen vs. GRUB, Ian C. Blenke, 2007/01/08
- Re: Xen vs. GRUB, Samuel Thibault, 2007/01/08
- Re: [task #5468] Port GNU Mach to the Xen VMM, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/01/03