Re: [PATCH] {maint} repo: don't commit generated files in the git repository anymore

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 10:17 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> Another patch to be applied after the 1.11.2 release.
>>
>> While conceptually very simple, this patch is quite large in size,
>> since the diffs contain all the text of the removed configure and
>> Makefile.in files; so I've attached it compressed.
>>
>> repo: don't commit generated files in the git repository anymore

Thank you, Stefano!
Automake has been a bit of a laggard on this front.
It has been annoying (and slightly risky) to see my infrequent diff
output buried under pages of spurious "git diff" output from all of
those generated-yet-VC'd files.

I'm glad to see that automake is finally catching up to best-practices.


> Why?
>
> This breaks with GNU practices having been applied ever since automake
> exists and renders building automake impossible from git to many
> people.

Hi Ralf,

It sounds like you're confusing with build-from-release-tarball.

There is a very long tradition of maintainer/developer build-from-VC
requiring more (and very recent) tools than usual.
People building from VC have the responsibility to install more tools
than those building from a release tarball.  This is nothing new.

Jim