Re: .cvsignore files still relevant?

[Eric Blake]

On 09/13/2010 01:26 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > What on earth would .cvsignore be useful for in this day and age?
>
> I had thought we maintained a readonly cvs protocol mirror from our
> savannah git repo...

I believe this is still the case.

> although if we do, how to use it escapes me!

From M4's HACKING:

>   A read-only copy of gnulib can be obtained by:
>       git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
>     or
>       cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/srv/git/gnulib.git \
>         co -d gnulib HEAD

s/gnulib/libtool/, and you can get libtool via CVS.

> Allow me to rephrase the original email:
>
> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ##
> ##  I plan to remove all the .cvsignore files from our repo  ##
> ##  before the release next weekend unless someone asks me   ##
> ##                           not to :o)                      ##
> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ##

Please remove them.  Even if you still use the cvs mirror, there's no 
need for upstream to keep .cvsignore in sync; for those CVS hold-outs, 
they can use ~/.cvsignore or just ignore all the ? when doing cvs update 
for files unknown to CVS; and since the cvs repository is read-only, 
they can't inadvertently turn local files into new vcs files.

I removed the .cvsignore files from m4 a while ago, and no one complained.

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