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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out |
Date: | Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:03:52 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Paul Eggert wrote: > While we're on the subject of what goes into the distribution, several > files are under version control but are not in the distribution > tarball. They are: > > > .gitattributes > .gitignore > .gitlab-ci.yml Only relevant to git checkouts. > GNUmakefile I don't know. > INSTALL.REPO > build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg > build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit Only relevant to git checkouts. > msdos/autogen Only relevant to the MS-DOS port maintainer. > plus the entire 'test' subdirectory. This has been intentional but it's obviously the most debatable omission. > Shouldn't we be distributing all the actual source that we develop > with, even if it's not needed to build the tarball? That would seem to > be more the GNU Way. The current philosophy is "omit things that aren't relevant". I dunno.
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