Re: [HACKERS] Removing derived files from CVS

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > I have been looking into what it would take to remove derived files
> > from the CVS repository, and it doesn't look bad at all.  I propose
> > we do so before 6.5 beta.
> > 
> > In case anyone's forgotten: the issue is derived files, such as gram.c,
> > which we currently keep in the CVS repository even though they are not
> > master source files.  Doing so causes a number of headaches, including
> > wasted time to check in and check out updates to both master and derived
> > files, unreasonable bulk of the CVS files for these derived files,
> > errors due to timestamp skew (after checking out, it can look like you
> > have an up-to-date derived file when you do not), etc etc.
> 
> We have not been able to reliably make releases with the proper
> timestamps on gram.c, which is critical for end-users, so any change
> that will make this gram.c more automatic is welcomed by me.

Agreed here too...someone at one point mentioned that there might be a
way, inside of CVS, to have it auto-generate these files as its being
checked out (ie. if file is configure.in, run autoconf)...

I just scan'd through the cvs info file, and couldn't find
anything...anyone know about something like this?

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