Having generated files in cvs?

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:21:14PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> BTW, why is the CVS holding generated files like configure & co?  Since
> we all have variouns versios of autoconf/automake, the cvs diff output
> is cluttered with useless hooks.

Correct.  I followed that practice of the previous committers to the
trees.  It has both advantages and disadvantages.  You listed a
disadvantage.  An advantage is that we can easily tell people: ``Get the
`gnumach-1-branch' from cvs and compile that one.'' without having to
worry if they have suitable versions of the Auto* tools installed.  I
don't know if that is really a strong argument, though.

I don't have a general objection against changing that practice.

What are others's opinions?


Regards,
 Thomas

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