[setup] Extra files under source control

[Charles Wilson]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Charles Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> which are under source control in the setup repository really should
>>> /not/ be stored in CVS.  They are regenerated every time you run
>>> doconfigure, anyway.
>>
>> It makes sense to not have them in CVS from a consistency standpoint. 
>> However, those dirs are intended to be vendor branches (or whatever CVS
>> calls it when you just bulk add external files) so that hopefully
>> keeping a current version just means importing an upstream release
>> tarball.  I don't know how CVS copes with that, I'd have to read up in
>> the CVS book.  Dave, do you know?
> 
> Brian, as Dave never answered, does this constitute an objection, or can 
> I go ahead and remove the listed files?

 From here:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs_toc.html#SEC43

it looks like you bulk import the third-party sources using the import 
command, and they automatically go onto the vendor branch (*not* HEAD). 
Then, on HEAD, you can make whatever mods you need -- such as removing 
superfluous generated files, like Makefile.in.

Then, when it's time to update the third party sources, you import in 
bulk again, using a different release tag. However, these will still 
automatically go onto the vendor branch, *not* HEAD.

quoting:
"For files that have not been modified locally, the newly created 
revision becomes the head revision. If you have made local changes, 
import will warn you that you must merge the changes into the main 
trunk, and tell you to use `checkout -j' to do so."

So, if you've removed some of the files on HEAD, I *think* they will 
stay removed on HEAD after you do a merge. However, if the 
newly-imported code has some additional files (an added directory with a 
new Makefile.in?) that should be removed from HEAD, you'd have to do 
that, on HEAD, manually after the merge.

--
Chuck