Help needed with maintainer-mode

[Vladimir Mezentsev]

On 3/4/24 09:38, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> Tools like git (and svn before it) don't try to maintain time-stamps on patches, the tool just modifies the file and the timestamp comes from the time of the modification.  That's fine if there is nothing regenerated within the repository (it's pure original source), but will cause problems if there are generated files as their time stamps aren't necessarily correct.  `gcc_update --touch` addresses that by ensuring all the generated files are retouched when needed.

Why do we save generated files in the source tree?
What will be the problem if we remove Makefile.in and configure from 
source tree and will run `autoreconf -i -f` before building ?