From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What are those .gitignore files doing in the CVS?
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:10:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wold9r3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eiyddb73.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:38:56 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>> So, as long as the mirror is only one-way I don't see a need for those
>> files to appear in the CVS.
>
> I certainly don't want to spend the time setting up a complicated
> infrastructure for 4 very small files; if somebody else does it, great,
> whatever.
>
> But until somebody _does_ do it, there's obviously a reason for those
> files to be in CVS. They are useful, and do not have a negative impact.
BTW, I think it's also a bad idea in _general_ to separate out such
files in context-specific subdistributions. We do not have a separate
"windows" source tree, and we should not a have a separate "git" source
tree, nor a separate "bzr" tree.
-Miles
--
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 14:07 What are those .gitignore files doing in the CVS? Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 15:26 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-04 16:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-04 22:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-04 22:38 ` Gilaras Drakeson
2009-02-04 22:56 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-04 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 23:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-04 19:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 22:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-04 23:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 23:38 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-05 0:10 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-02-06 7:42 ` Jonathan Rockway
2009-02-07 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-07 3:00 ` mail
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2009-02-07 9:35 Alfred M. Szmidt
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