[ On Wednesday, September 6, 2000 at 14:51:30 (+0000), John Carter wrote: ]
> Subject: Generated files.
>
> Greeting to Concurrent Versions of yourSelves...
>
> What is the standard way of handling generated files within the CVS tree?
Don't import/add any generated file, at least not if people will be
expected to regenerate it.
Run "./configure && make maintainer-clean" before you import.
(This doesn't always work and sometimes some cleanup is necessary, and
sometimes it's "hard" to rebuild without using the exact tools the
maintainers use, which of course creates conflicts.....)
> Examples...
> 1) GPL'd lib that has been "import"ed creates hundreds of executables
> and scratch in its directory tree.
>
> ie. When you do something like cvs release/co/update you get hundreds of
> files marked "?"
>
> Do you try desperately to move them out of the tree?
>
> Ignore all the "?"?
>
> Trace each one down and write a cvsignore pattern?
Updating local .cvsignore files is rather easy with PCL-CVS....
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