From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-25 d35d398: Update to the AUTHORS file for Bob Weiner Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:35:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160802235649.3930.79230@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20160802235649.E251B220169@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470674192 11745 195.159.176.226 (8 Aug 2016 16:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:36:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 08 18:36:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWnXK-0001Ty-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:36:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWnXH-0005ZN-6i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWma4-0003bo-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWma3-0005ov-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWma1-0005nm-7E; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bWmZz-0000uT-5h; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:35:03 -0400 X-Spook: Home grown Croatian NSA SBI secure NORAD Rubin Hazardous X-Ran: (fUO#G4J"io26E\+ssI9cRrDM8b+2*cN?T7[;8nuQ&%HP|]5z4|f"07vDU!P"vCZbi~;/G X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:42:08 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206488 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> AUTHORS is a generated file and should not be edited directly. > > Any reason we keep it in Git, then? I was waiting for someone to ask that... It's not essential to keep it in the repo. However, it is slow to regenerate (so slow that you would not want to add it to a normal build target, so removing it from the the repo means most non-tarball installs would simply not contain any version, which I think would be a shame), rarely changes (only when a pretest is made), and never causes merge conflicts (pretests only happen on one branch), and IMO it is nice to have a version always present. So why not leave it as-is. PS please try to use reply-to-all, not reply-to-list.