jkesselm commented on PR #122: URL: https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/pull/122#issuecomment-1813536631
The only way I know to build a really safe distro is a clean check-out. Otherwise you wind up either having insufficient excludes to handle every case, or so many includes that you wind up having to maintain it every time you add a file. Thermodynamics... The source assembly I'm using is based directly on the "official" Apache standard assembly, changing only what I must. So we're no worse off than any other Apache project which uses that canned solution. This is why I wanted to be able to tap .gitignore's contents from Maven plugins; it's already a declaration of what should not be committed, and gets maintained as developers discover the need to maintain it; having to maintain the source build separately is painful and should be avoidable. If folks want to also support other SCCS ignore lists, great, but given how dominant Git is these days... I tend to feel that .** should be in the exclude list, perhaps with explicit exception for .gitignore or as manually managed for specific projects. Though .gitignore can be explicitly commited to keep it from ignoring itself. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
