[xml/sgml] question about auto-generated files

[Ardo van Rangelrooij]

Graham Wilson (graham@debian.org) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:37:38PM -0600, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> > Graham Wilson (graham@debian.org) wrote:
> > > cvs-inject seems to import them into the repository, however, I thought
> > > that it was a bad idea to keep machine generated files under version
> > > control. Does anyone else have any experience or thoughts on this?
> > 
> > I just did an `cvs rm -f` of all the auto-generated files and followed the
> > README.Debian of the autotools-dev package.  Look at the expat package for
> > what I did exactly.  IIRC I also did that with the libxslt package when I
> > maintained it.
> 
> Did you do this after the upstream source was in CVS? Was this in the
> debian branch, or in the vendor branch? If the vendor branch, how does
> cvs-update handle the situation where the new upstream source package
> has files not in CVS?

After I put upstream in CVS (using cvs-upgrade) and on the main branch.

Thanks,
Ardo
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