Request approval to add stuff to .cvsignores
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Fri Nov 29 06:31:00 GMT 2002
Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>>>D zlib/autom4te.cache
>>>M zlib/configure
>>
>>These should be kept in CVS. zlib, like the setup root, is kept
>>ready-to-go.
>
>
> You are correct. CVS won't actually ignore configure, even if it *is* in
> .cvsignore, because it is under version control.
>
> autom4te.cache isn't though, so I would like to add that (but not
> configure).
>
The autom4te.cache should _never_ go to CVS. It contains data about the
autoconf users system and could cause false positives and false
negatives for a different maintainer.
Earnie.
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