Hi Eric, On 13 Sep 2010, at 21:44, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/13/2010 01:26 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>> What on earth would .cvsignore be useful for in this day and age? >> >> I had thought we maintained a readonly cvs protocol mirror from our >> savannah git repo... > > I believe this is still the case. > >> although if we do, how to use it escapes me! > > From M4's HACKING: > >> A read-only copy of gnulib can be obtained by: >> git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git >> or >> cvs -d:pserver:anonym...@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/gnulib.git \ >> co -d gnulib HEAD > > s/gnulib/libtool/, and you can get libtool via CVS.
Nice! I'm adding something to README along the same lines (patch in another thread). >> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ## >> ## I plan to remove all the .cvsignore files from our repo ## >> ## before the release next weekend unless someone asks me ## >> ## not to :o) ## >> ## --------------------------------------------------------- ## > > Please remove them. Even if you still use the cvs mirror, there's no need > for upstream to keep .cvsignore in sync; for those CVS hold-outs, they can > use ~/.cvsignore or just ignore all the ? when doing cvs update for files > unknown to CVS; and since the cvs repository is read-only, they can't > inadvertently turn local files into new vcs files. > > I removed the .cvsignore files from m4 a while ago, and no one complained. Done! Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (g...@gnu.org)
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