From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed gnulib renames
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:14:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101271114.54884.bruno@clisp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4120B9.60604@cs.ucla.edu>
Paul Eggert wrote:
> There's no need to keep gnulib-cache.m4, since gnulib-tool is invoked only
> from Makefile.in.
I disagree. The gnulib documentation ([1], paragraph 1) recommends to put also
gnulib-cache.m4 into the repository.
The reason is that when a file is renamed in gnulib or some module dependency
is removed in gnulib, what happens at the next invocation of sync-from-gnulib?
- When gnulib-cache.m4 is present, gnulib-tool will add a file under the
new name and remove the old file. Because it knows that the file came from
gnulib.
- When gnulib-cache.m4 is missing, gnulib-tool will just add a file under
the new name, but leave the old file around, because it looks like that
file was genuine Emacs source.
So, if you routinely remove gnulib-cache.m4, over time the repository will
accumulate garbage files. Sometimes they don't hurt (if it's just a .c file),
but it can really get in the way and cause trouble (if it's a .h file).
Bruno
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/VCS-Issues.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-27 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-23 12:15 Files from gnulib Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-23 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-23 19:29 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-23 22:16 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-24 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-24 4:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-24 23:26 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 8:48 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 11:32 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-25 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 18:07 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 21:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-26 1:05 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:19 ` Proposed gnulib renames [was: Files from gnulib] Eric Blake
2011-01-26 15:58 ` Proposed gnulib renames Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 17:33 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-26 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 19:01 ` Eric Blake
2011-01-26 19:01 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-26 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 7:37 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 9:59 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-28 1:57 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 10:14 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2011-01-27 10:23 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-28 0:32 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26 16:11 ` Files from gnulib Stefan Monnier
2011-01-26 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 0:32 ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-26 3:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 21:24 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 22:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 0:54 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 11:13 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:23 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-26 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:50 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 12:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-26 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-26 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 8:32 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-28 7:30 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-28 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-31 9:29 ` Compartmentalizing the 8.3 problem into the msdos directory Paul Eggert
2011-02-05 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 11:20 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-05 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 23:30 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 0:55 ` Glenn Morris
2011-02-06 13:37 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-06 4:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 7:30 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-24 7:57 ` Files from gnulib Glenn Morris
2011-01-24 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-24 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-26 15:53 Proposed gnulib renames Eric Blake
2011-01-26 16:08 ` Eric Blake
2011-01-26 16:36 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 18:59 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 19:48 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-27 0:39 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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