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Re: cvs server: conflicts found in gcc/c-parse.c
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: cvs server: conflicts found in gcc/c-parse.c
- From: "Robert J. Brown" <rj at eli dot elilabs dot com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:42:09 -0600
- Cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com, Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>, law at cygnus dot com, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- References: <u9d8g8ld0i.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com><Pine.GSO.3.96.980228112910.12930D-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
Gerald> On 27 Feb 1998, Jason Merrill wrote:
>> BTW, how would people feel about removing some of the generated
>> files from CVS? I think it's reasonable to expect people using
>> the CVS repository to have bison installed.
Gerald> I'd say assuming bison (or at least yacc) resp. (f)lex
Gerald> should be okay and would save various kinds of troubles.
Gerald> On the other hand I do believe that autoconf, for example,
Gerald> is not that widely installed, so autoconf generated files
Gerald> should remain in the repository, IMHO.
I do not think that *ANY* generated files should be checked into CVS
unless we actually intent to edit these files and forget that at one
time they were generated.
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