Re: .cvsignore and .gitignore

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bruno, Reuben,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:14:40AM CET:
[...]
> The doc says that if you're a case 2, you can pass the option --no-vc-files
> to gnulib-tool. This will solve half of your problem.
> 
> The other half is that you have files generated from "make" while you perform
> VCS operations, and you wish them to be added to .cvsignore or .gitignore.
> That is an issue you should bring up with the automake developers, IMO. If
> you were developing packages without gnulib, that use the automake
> BUILT_SOURCES variable, you would have the same problem.

I'm not sure I understand correctly.  I don't think automake can detect
the full set of files that is generated.  But I may be missing
something, I didn't follow the conversation.

Thanks,
Ralf