From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What are those .gitignore files doing in the CVS? Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:10:08 +0900 Message-ID: <878wold9r3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <877i46dy05.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87vdrpdeb7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87eiyddb73.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233794754 21420 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2009 00:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 01:47:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUsOZ-0005M3-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:47:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUsNG-0002zo-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUrzq-00079O-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUrzb-00070i-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:21:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55301 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUrzb-0006yz-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:21:19 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:54218) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUrop-0000aO-4T; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from 218.231.175.8.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.175.8] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1LUrom-0001QX-RS; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:10:08 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4155DDFBB; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:10:08 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87eiyddb73.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:38:56 +0900") Original-Lines: 21 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108765 Archived-At: Miles Bader 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.'