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Re: cvs import forgets files
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Lars Brueckner |
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Re: cvs import forgets files |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:27:51 +0200 |
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:18:14AM +0000, Pierre Asselin wrote:
> Lars Brueckner <brueckner@ito.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
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> An alternative would be to see if you can live without
> the missing files. Usually they are generated files that
> the developers don't want in *their* repository, but they
> include them in the tarballs to remove the dependency
> on the tools that generates them. If you have the tools,
> you can leave them out of your repository too.
>
Mozilla will not build without some of these files, that
was the reason I stumpled upon this.
Will try to report this upstream.
> (I do hate tarballs with .cvsignore's, though.)
They are actually quite useful if you plan to have your
own CVS :-)
I wonder what was the reason to implement -I !
with this strange semantic in the first place.
Almost all Makefiles offer a distclean...
Regards,
Lars
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Lars Brückner brueckner@ito.tu-darmstadt.de
IT Transfer Office, Darmstadt University of Technology
http://www.ito.tu-darmstadt.de