On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:13 +0000, Aaron Stone wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005, Geo Carncross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > If I'm expected to generate them, can we remove the following from CVS? > > [snip autotools generated files] > > > They just mess me up when I'm trying to clean out for updates. > > > There's two schools of thought on this, I once read: keep generated files > in CVS, or don't keep them in CVS.
Fine. Keep them in CVS. I don't care. I _do_ care about having _incomplete_ files in CVS. As I said, _IF_ I'm expected to generate them, please remove them. If they're going to be generated on a common system, fine, but keep them _ALL_ in CVS. I don't mind doing an aclocal/autoconf/automake when mucking about with new files or configure.ac (and friends). I wouldn't care if I never had to do that either. auto* is vommit. like vommit, it's serving a purpose, and everybody's got it, but like vommit, nobody really likes to mess with it after it's happened. I don't think your feelings on the subject are unreasonable- deputize a shared system to manage this stuff so others don't have to. But right now, I'm following HEAD. Since EVERY TIME I build dbmail I have to regenerate these files, I'm also touching them. That means cvs diff shows junk that I didn't write. That means, I'm taking lots of trips to the CVS server to find out what I _AM_ touching so I can produce concise patches in a reasonable amount of time. Put them in, take them out, I don't care. Just stop the incomplete crap. -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/
