Ethan Blanton spake unto us the following wisdom: > There is another possibility -- maybe they are simply expensive to > generate. Several times in renaming directories in the Pidgin source > tree, I've had to blow away quantities of object files which I would > rather have kept, all things being equal. (They could, of course, be > kept by tarring them up, removing them, renaming, and extracting or > what-have-you, but they're just not *that* expensive to generate! > [Pidgin isn't C++, after all... ;-)]) In such a case, it really would > be nice if the non-versioned files just moved right along with the > versioned files.
[snip]
> (Assuming I understood the problem correctly.)
Rereading, I see that I did not -- but it is a related issue, I think.
Ethan
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