On 12/03/14 22:06, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >>> It is a very good principle to put only real source files into a git >>> repository, and no generated files. I will continue so. My >>> successor might make a different decision, though. >> >> Sure, that is your decision. > > It's also long-standing normal practice. It's a real pain to look at > the differences between versions under *source* control and have them > cluttered with noisy differences between built outputs.
And this is why it's such a bad idea to keep the *generated* configure file, (as opposed to just configure.ac), in the repository; differences in the autoconf versions on different developers' machines may produce *very* noisy diffs, for trivial configure.ac changes. This was always an annoyance in CVS; with the recent migration to git, now would probably be a good time to drop the generated configure file from the repository. -- Regards, Keith.
