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Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 5, 2009, 12:45 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:38:27PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> >> * we have lots other files in git.git that are autogenerated (the
> >> documentation files, for example)
> >
> > I'm not aware of any auto-generated files that are checked in. Can you
> > give an example?
> 
> man pages and html docs are commited, but in a separate branch. IOW,
> Junio abuses Git as a distribution mechanism, but keeps it totally
> separate from the actual sources.

OK, true; but that is a totally different mechanism, unless the proposal is to autobuild a "this would be the release tarball" branch similar to html and man branches.

-Peff
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  4. Miles BaderFeb 6, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2009
  6. Miles BaderFeb 6, 2009
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  13. Joi EllisMar 1, 2009
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  15. Andreas EricssonMar 5, 2009
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  17. Jeff KingMar 5, 2009
  18. Matthieu MoyMar 5, 2009
  19. Jeff KingMar 5, 2009
  20. Jakub NarebskiMar 6, 2009
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  22. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2009
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  24. asciidoc, was Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'Johannes Schindelin, Mar 6, 2009
  25. John TapsellMar 6, 2009
  26. Jakub NarebskiMar 6, 2009
  27. John TapsellMar 6, 2009
  28. Björn SteinbrinkFeb 6, 2009
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