On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 21:26, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Mark Larson (Google)<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Should have been no problem, but... because the new directory
> >> contained a gyp file, a file was generated in that directory,
> >> and svn couldn't delete the directory when the revert landed.
> >> This caused a build breakage, and I gather from nsylvain's
> >> comments that this wasn't the first time this has happened.
> >>
> >> At some point soon, it'd be good to teach gyp not to generate
> >> files in the source tree.
> >
> > Or maybe teach gclient how to deal forcefully with directories with no
> files
> > under version control.
>
> That's kind of, um, forceful.  svn doesn't do that for a reason...


I was perhaps a bit too flip. I don't advocate automatic destruction of
these directories, but it seems gclient could offer a mode/flag to clean
them up. The build slaves will never have directories with un-versioned
changes and could run gclient with this flag all the time.


>
>
> > Generating files in the source tree is kinda the point of gyp.
>
> No.  Generating files is the point of gyp.  Nothing says they have to
> be in the source tree.


That is true. The real Mark has already responded to this better than I
could.

--other Mark


>
> - Dan
>

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