Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Moving accompagnying files

[Robert Anderson]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Let's say I have checked out a tree of the Emacs source, compiled (in place)
> and all.
> If an update moves the file lisp/foo.el to lisp/bar.el, how can I make sure
> that lisp/foo.elc (i.e. the byte-compiled form of foo.el) is also moved
> to lisp/bar.elc (or alternatively is completely removed) ?
>  
Why are derived files version controlled?  That seems like a poor 
practice to me.

Bob