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Re: Use glibc version information in zic and zdump
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 09 November 2012 19:24:32 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > --- a/timezone/version.h
> > +++ /dev/null
>
> add this file to .gitignore so that if someone tries to `git add` it, they'll
> get an error ? or do we not expect to do syncs with tzcode in the future ?
Why would anyone try "git add" on this particular file name? Syncs from
tzcode involve copying in the files listed in timezone/README as copied
from tzcode. They do not involve copying any other source files from
tzcode (of which there are many) and do not involve copying random files
such as version.h from a tzcode build directory.
I think most of the entries in .gitignore should be removed; that it
should just be for files the build generates in the source directory,
until we fix the build not to do so, and for files we really think there
is a common reason for many users to get in their source directory (like
*.rej and *.orig), not for files that some random individual developer
might long ago have been putting in their source directory. Let's say
*~
*.rej
*.orig
configparms
autom4te*.cache
/linuxthreads
/linuxthreads_db
/rtkaio
of all the existing entries in the toplevel .gitignore (po/.gitignore
looks OK at present), and maybe not even all of those.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com