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Father Chrysostomos
Date:
March 26, 2016 17:13
Subject:
Re: generated docs files not under source control?
Message ID:
20160326171317.9311.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
Zefram wrote:
> We could, a little, but it would suck.  It's the wrong direction to go in.
> We ought to stop committing in the generated files that we currently do.
> This would have the advantage that diffs aren't confounded by the noisy
> consequential changes in generated files.  It would also eliminate the
> existing failure mode of committing desynchronised versions of the source
> and generated files.

Not even being able to build perl from the repository without bison
would make it more difficult for random contributors.


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