[parted-devel] Autogenerable files included on SCM

[David Cantrell]

Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've found a bunch of files that can be autogenerated and are often
>> updated on SCM repository. This doesn't make sense in my POV since it
>> makes our life harder to hack on the code since we need to select what
>> we wish to commit every time.
> 
>   ./libtool
>   ./ltmain.sh
>   ./m4/
>   ./m4/ChangeLog
>   ./m4/Makefile.am
>   ./m4/codeset.m4
>   ./m4/gettext.m4
>   ./m4/glibc21.m4
>   ./m4/iconv.m4
>   ./m4/intdiv0.m4
>   ./m4/intmax.m4
>   ./m4/inttypes-pri.m4
>   ./m4/inttypes.m4
>   ./m4/inttypes_h.m4
>   ./m4/isc-posix.m4
>   ./m4/lcmessage.m4
>   ./m4/lib-ld.m4
>   ./m4/lib-link.m4
>   ./m4/lib-prefix.m4
>   ./m4/longdouble.m4
>   ./m4/longlong.m4
>   ./m4/nls.m4
>   ./m4/po.m4
>   ./m4/printf-posix.m4
>   ./m4/progtest.m4
>   ./m4/signed.m4
>   ./m4/size_max.m4
>   ./m4/stdint_h.m4
>   ./m4/uintmax_t.m4
>   ./m4/ulonglong.m4
>   ./m4/wchar_t.m4
>   ./m4/wint_t.m4
>   ./m4/xsize.m4
>   ./po/Makefile.in.in
>   ./po/Rules-quot
> 
> This is the complete filelist that I found. I already removed those
> files in my local branch and I will push if the rest of people agree
> with me.

If it's autogenerated, I want to remove it.  There's no reason to store 
those files in version control.

On all projects I've started that use autoconf/automake, I do what you 
do and create an autogen.sh script to create the autoconf/automake stuff 
for you.

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA