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Re: .cvsignore files still relevant?
From: |
Gary V. Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: .cvsignore files still relevant? |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:51:41 +0700 |
Hi Eric,
On 13 Sep 2010, at 21:44, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/13/2010 01:26 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>> What on earth would .cvsignore be useful for in this day and age?
>>
>> I had thought we maintained a readonly cvs protocol mirror from our
>> savannah git repo...
>
> I believe this is still the case.
>
>> although if we do, how to use it escapes me!
>
> From M4's HACKING:
>
>> A read-only copy of gnulib can be obtained by:
>> git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
>> or
>> cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/srv/git/gnulib.git \
>> co -d gnulib HEAD
>
> s/gnulib/libtool/, and you can get libtool via CVS.
Nice! I'm adding something to README along the same lines (patch in
another thread).
>> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ##
>> ## I plan to remove all the .cvsignore files from our repo ##
>> ## before the release next weekend unless someone asks me ##
>> ## not to :o) ##
>> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ##
>
> Please remove them. Even if you still use the cvs mirror, there's no need
> for upstream to keep .cvsignore in sync; for those CVS hold-outs, they can
> use ~/.cvsignore or just ignore all the ? when doing cvs update for files
> unknown to CVS; and since the cvs repository is read-only, they can't
> inadvertently turn local files into new vcs files.
>
> I removed the .cvsignore files from m4 a while ago, and no one complained.
Done!
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)
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