On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:16 CET Justin Mason wrote:
> Malte S. Stretz writes:
> > On Thursday 30 September 2004 18:42 CET Justin Mason wrote:
> > > Malte S. Stretz writes:
> > > > Why I sort that file now and then is because it makes it much
> > > > easier to see if a file is already in there or remove one which is
> > > > gone. Keeping the MANIFEST up-to-date is already a PITA and an
> > > > unsorted file makes it even worse (ok, there are grep and friends
> > > > but I think its faster to scan the file with your eyes instead of
> > > > calling some command).
> > >
> > > "make distcheck" works for me ;)
> > > "make disttest" is also useful -- if a file is missing, it should
> > > cause a test to fail anyway.
> >
> > Yeah, they are useful but do you call them after (or better: before)
> > each commit? I do so before each bigger change but for small things I
> > often simply forget it (or avoid it because it can take ages).
>
> before every commit where you've added or removed files. no question of
> that ;)
Of course I do.... unless I forget it ;~)
Cheers,
Malte
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