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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mar 5, 2009, 12:38 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq7i34ywjg.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20090305120602.GA18717@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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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.

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> Yes, it does. Having generated files in your source repository means:
>
>   - you generate useless noise commits when those files are
>     re-autogenerated
>
>   - developers must make sure that they are not accidentally committing
>     auto-generated cruft that have nothing to do with their actual
>     changes

- You almost certainly get irrelevant conflicts when merging.

- Different developers using different autoconf versions that generate
  different code for the same source make even more noise that you'd
  expect ;-).

-- 
Matthieu