Re: .cvsignore files still relevant?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Eric,

On 13 Sep 2010, at 21:44, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/13/2010 01:26 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>> What on earth would .cvsignore be useful for in this day and age?
>> 
>> I had thought we maintained a readonly cvs protocol mirror from our
>> savannah git repo...
> 
> I believe this is still the case.
> 
>> although if we do, how to use it escapes me!
> 
> From M4's HACKING:
> 
>>  A read-only copy of gnulib can be obtained by:
>>      git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
>>    or
>>      cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/srv/git/gnulib.git \
>>        co -d gnulib HEAD
> 
> s/gnulib/libtool/, and you can get libtool via CVS.

Nice!  I'm adding something to README along the same lines (patch in
another thread).

>> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ##
>> ##  I plan to remove all the .cvsignore files from our repo  ##
>> ##  before the release next weekend unless someone asks me   ##
>> ##                           not to :o)                      ##
>> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ##
> 
> Please remove them.  Even if you still use the cvs mirror, there's no need 
> for upstream to keep .cvsignore in sync; for those CVS hold-outs, they can 
> use ~/.cvsignore or just ignore all the ? when doing cvs update for files 
> unknown to CVS; and since the cvs repository is read-only, they can't 
> inadvertently turn local files into new vcs files.
> 
> I removed the .cvsignore files from m4 a while ago, and no one complained.

Done!

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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