Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/09/2011 10:17 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Another patch to be applied after the 1.11.2 release. >> >> While conceptually very simple, this patch is quite large in size, >> since the diffs contain all the text of the removed configure and >> Makefile.in files; so I've attached it compressed. >> >> repo: don't commit generated files in the git repository anymore
Thank you, Stefano! Automake has been a bit of a laggard on this front. It has been annoying (and slightly risky) to see my infrequent diff output buried under pages of spurious "git diff" output from all of those generated-yet-VC'd files. I'm glad to see that automake is finally catching up to best-practices. > Why? > > This breaks with GNU practices having been applied ever since automake > exists and renders building automake impossible from git to many > people. Hi Ralf, It sounds like you're confusing with build-from-release-tarball. There is a very long tradition of maintainer/developer build-from-VC requiring more (and very recent) tools than usual. People building from VC have the responsibility to install more tools than those building from a release tarball. This is nothing new. Jim
