On 27 January 2014 04:34, Robin Haberkorn <[email protected]>wrote:
> * You should not commit generated files (autotools) into the SVN > repository. Everyone who has to regenerate the autotools files for > one reason or another is left with dozens of locally changed files > and will face merge conflicts if you choose to commit your version > of auto-generated files. > I suggest removing all auto-generated files from the > repository and setting the svn:ignore property on the parent > directories to ignore these files instead. When you create source > tar-balls with "make dist", automake is smart enough to include > some of the auto-generated files like "configure" automatically. > This is just my opinion, but I'm very glad that these files are committed into the repository. This is because getting a fully working autoconf environment is ridiculously hard. I'm running two different Linux distributions (Ubuntu and Arch) as well as OSX on my machines, and not a single one of them can successfully run autoconf on this (and many others) project. Regards, Elias
