Re: bison.1 in version control?

[Joel E. Denny]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Eric Blake wrote:

> It looks like bison generally tries to avoid generated files in version
> control (for example, configure or Makefile.in).  Any reason that
> doc/bison.1 is an exception to this rule?

There was a time when bison.1 was not generated, and I guess we just never 
thought to update this.

> Also, I noticed that
> .prev-version is NOT in version control, which means builds start out with
> this message:
> 
> cat: .prev-version: No such file or directory

There are several issues in this general area that need updating.  For 
example, at some point I noticed that GNUmakefile is now part of gnulib, 
but we still have a local copy.