[setup] Extra files under source control

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sat Jul 19 16:13:00 GMT 2008


Brian Dessent wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>> which are under source control in the setup repository really should
>> /not/ be stored in CVS.  They are regenerated every time you run
>> doconfigure, anyway.
> 
> It makes sense to not have them in CVS from a consistency standpoint. 
> However, those dirs are intended to be vendor branches (or whatever CVS
> calls it when you just bulk add external files) so that hopefully
> keeping a current version just means importing an upstream release
> tarball.  I don't know how CVS copes with that, I'd have to read up in
> the CVS book.  Dave, do you know?

Brian, as Dave never answered, does this constitute an objection, or can 
I go ahead and remove the listed files?

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Chucj



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