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Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf
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Eric Blake |
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Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf |
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Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:21:43 -0600 |
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According to Bruno Haible on 3/19/2007 6:19 PM:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Another feature: bootstrap adds .cvsignore and .gitignore
>> entries for files it supplies.
>
> Good idea. It has annoyed me as well, but never reached the necessary pain
> level. Find attached a patch that implements the first part of it. The
> second part will be the handling of CLEANFILES and MOSTLYCLEANFILES.
> (Why isn't automake doing this, by the way: copying the list of CLEANFILES
> and MOSTLYCLEANFILES into .cvsignore and .gitignore?)
No attachment, but I see you applied the patch? Also, I would prefer if
the updated ignore file were maintained in sorted order, rather than
appending new entries at the bottom.
Hmm, this means that .{cvs,git}ignore are now generated. And the policy
of keeping generated files out of revision control becomes awkward (a user
who bootstraps from a different date in gnulib may have spurious
differences from the last checked-in version of the ignore list). Maybe
that means that the bootstrap script should be smart enough on initial
checkout to create the lib/.cvsignore and m4/.cvsignore files with initial
contents of files actually kept under control (which means that the
bootstrap-created .cvsignore would include itself as something for CVS to
ignore), prior to running gnulib-tool which updates it to include all
remaining generated files.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/12
- Message not available
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/18
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Karl Berry, 2007/03/18
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/18
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Karl Berry, 2007/03/18
- Message not available
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Paul Eggert, 2007/03/19
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/19
Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/17