From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA17821 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 10:43:52 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA21793; Wed, 8 May 1996 20:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 20:38:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <10027.199605090037@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: .cvsignore files To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 01:30:13 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <199605082314.BAA00417@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at May 9, 96 01:14:01 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7475.10 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk Resent-Message-ID: <"D-jiD2.0.QK5.nvJan"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1029 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >I do not think that this is really necessary. I always build zsh in a >separate directory so the build process does not change anything in the >source tree with the exception of autoconf generated files. Using >a separate build directory is always necessary in a multiplatform >environment. But not all of us do this. I almost never use a separate directory. We must at least allow for the possibility. >If one uses a separate directory then only config.h.in, configure and >stamp-h.in remains. But config.h.in, configure and the empty stamp-h.in >are archived in the RCS files. This is necessary since the RCS file is >used to generate the patches between releases and not all people have >autoconf installed on their system. And if a file is in the RCS >distribution it should not be put into .cvsignore. After that no files >remained :-). The way I use CVS, any file that can be generated (including config.h.in and stamp-h.in) does not go into the repository. In fact, I do a "make superclean" before importing sources. I find that this is the best way to use CVS, as one doesn't end up with redundant diffs of generated files. -zefram