Hi Marc, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen asked: > What is the suggested workflow for "gnulib-tool --copy-file", > described in chapter 20 of the manual? Am I supposed to add the copied > file under version control so that a fresh checkout works out of the > box?
While some packages may do that, the main use of gnulib-tool is with packages that *don't* put imported and generated files under version control. > Or is it the idea to add an invocation to 'gnulib-tool --copy-file" to > bootstrap_post_import_hook? If that is the case, may I suggest adding > a bootstrap variable, say, "gnulib_files" that will cause bootstrap to > copy the files automatically? Such a variable already exists; it's called 'gnulib_extra_files'. See e.g. [1][2]. Documentation improvement patch welcome! Bruno [1] https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=findutils.git;a=blob;f=bootstrap.conf;h=15eac86602fae3051b504341839e1e4de706a2ae;hb=HEAD#l21 [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2025-07/txtjqlJnh50yL.txt
