Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit (was Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic)

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:29:09AM +0200, Robin Farine wrote:
>     Rob> use untagged-source precious, which will operate more like CVS does:
>     Rob> * tag-lined or added source will be commited.
>     Rob> * other source will be preserved.
> 
> That's one of the things I disliked in CVS, forget an add and the
> commit yields an incoherent changeset (as produced by cvsps). Personal
> taste, I agree.

Yeah I agree with you, the CVS behavior has caused me a lot of grief in the
past.  I much prefer putting up with tree-lint's persnicketiness.

The main source of crap files seems to be build products, and I've come to
the conclusion that the only sane way to operate is to use a separate build
dir for everything -- if a project doesn't support it, I just use symlink
trees (which have their own set problems, but it's better than the grief
caused by building in the source tree!).  Once you get rid of the build
products, tree hygiene is usually dead simple.

We should come to some decision on how tla should support .cvsignore-style
per-directory source-hygiene files, as I think that will be more comfortable
for many people (and help solve annoying same-name-different-dir-different-
type problems).  That thread seems to have died out though...

-Miles
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