Hi - > This is very true, however a few words of caution: IME this is a > maintainability nightmare. Fixing patches that forgot to regenerate, > regenerating on rebase, confirming everything is up-to-date before > merge, etc etc. It can be handled, I have, but it was painful and > time-consuming.The hardest part was ensuring everyone was actually > running the "right" version of Auto* [...]
One way to make the nightmare into a light hassle is to let developers commit auto* hand-written inputs with or without Complete Properly refreshed generated bits, and let a maintainer or bot (but I repeat myself) periodically regenerate the derived auto* content. - FChE
