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Re: Non-source files in CVS
Jost Boekemeier wrote:
>
> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
>
> > I think we can use `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore' and leave .cvsignore
> > to the user. It looks like Guile has its own repository, so it should
> > be no major problem that `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore' is
> > per-repository and not per-module.
That sounds like a fine idea to me. Does cvs merge that file with
`.cvsignore',
or does `.cvsignore' strictly take precedence?
> Can cvs users access the file $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore by using cvs
> commands?
Yes, by checking out the CVSROOT module.
> If not, how can you tell the users which files are created
> by the build process and should be ignored?
> Of course I can run cvs co, capture the state of all subdirs compare
> them with the state after configure/make and create my own
> .cvsignore's by using a script.
>
> Jost