RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
From: Christian Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have some genereated source-files that I need to have in the cvs Why must they be in CVS? the problem I have is that these files often gets generated when there is nothing changed to them (it is part of some compilation sections)

RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
-Original Message- From: Christian Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Does it really matter why? WHY is NOT the problem... how to make CVS work in my case is the important thing to solve... No, how to get the generated file to the developers is the problem to solve. CVS is just

RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Frederic Brehm
From: Christian Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] the problem I have is that these files often gets generated when there is nothing changed to them (it is part of some compilation sections) what happens is that I get new generated files that has only one difference, a remark in

RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Frederic Brehm
From: Riechers, Matthew W Again, why does something generated by a build need to be revision controlled? I wrote: The generated files don't need to be revision controlled, but they need to be available to people or tools who cannot run the tool that generates the files. The most convenient

RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Noel Yap
--- Frederic Brehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The generated files don't need to be revision controlled, but they need to be available to people or tools who cannot run the tool that generates the files. The most convenient way to make the files available is to put them into the repository

RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Noel Yap
--- Frederic Brehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: The generated files don't need to be revision controlled, but they need to be available to people or tools who cannot run the tool that generates the files. The most convenient way to make the files available is to put them into

RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 07:06 AM 8/22/2002 -0700, Noel Yap wrote: Have you tried: 1. Version control the generated file. Yes, I version control a canonical form of the generated file. 2. Build the generated file if the necessary tools are available. The tool does this without asking when it is run. It's a GUI,

RE: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 07:12 AM 8/22/2002 -0700, Noel Yap wrote: I don't understand, if Makefile.cache has to be in synch with the other files: 1. Why are there systems that are able to commit, but can't build Makefile.cache? There are no such systems. I'm not sure where my text misled you into thinking that, but

Re: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Larry Jones
Christian Andersson writes: the problem I have is that these files often gets generated when there is nothing changed to them (it is part of some compilation sections) what happens is that I get new generated files that has only one difference, a remark in the file telling when it was

Re: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Christian Andersson
Does it really matter why? WHY is NOT the problem... how to make CVS work in my case is the important thing to solve... No, how to get the generated file to the developers is the problem to solve. CVS is just one potential means to that end. why I cannot change the distribution is

Re: Make cvs ignore some changes in files

2002-08-22 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 04:52 PM 8/22/2002 +0200, Christian Andersson wrote: I asked for a sollution to MY problem, not to a different problem with how things are set up, so why not ignore why, and how and just answer my problem? OK. Is it possible for cvs to ignore certain rows in a file when comparing for