* Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-20 23:05]: > This seems to be a subset of the "should the repository contain > all the release files?" argument. Should the repo contain just > the files which build a release, or should they contain all the > files that go into a release? > > One side would argue that everything should be in version > control so you can track down bugs. The other side argues that > keeping generated files up to date is annoying. > > The pragmatic answer to this question depends largely on your > release process and how much stuff you generate.
Idle musing: if you have a sufficiently able VCS, couldn’t you have it both ways? Keep a main branch that contains just the essentials, and for a release merge it over to the release branch where the generated files are then refreshed and also checked back in. No? I can’t currently think of any reason for which this would fail, although I might be missing something obvious. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
