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Re: Non-source files in CVS
- To: Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>
- Subject: Re: Non-source files in CVS
- From: "Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>
- Date: 09 Jan 2000 17:17:42 -0800
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <87wvpivjby.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>
Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I think there is a number of files in CVS that should be removed.
> These are all non-.source files that are automatically
> generated/copied by autogen.sh and we shouldn't have them in CVS
> because it is confusing.
>
> I also think we shouldn't have .cvsignore files in CVS because I see
> them more as a private means of configuring CVS than as a part of
> Guile.
It'd be nice if CVS looked at .cvsignore and .cvsignore-personal, or
something like that, since there are some files that should definitely
be ignored (as part of the meta-information for the CVS module) and
there are others that an individual user may want CVS to ignore.
<snip>
Greg