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Re: Use glibc version information in zic and zdump


On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Friday 09 November 2012 19:24:32 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > --- a/timezone/version.h
> > +++ /dev/null
> 
> add this file to .gitignore so that if someone tries to `git add` it, they'll 
> get an error ?  or do we not expect to do syncs with tzcode in the future ?

Why would anyone try "git add" on this particular file name?  Syncs from 
tzcode involve copying in the files listed in timezone/README as copied 
from tzcode.  They do not involve copying any other source files from 
tzcode (of which there are many) and do not involve copying random files 
such as version.h from a tzcode build directory.

I think most of the entries in .gitignore should be removed; that it 
should just be for files the build generates in the source directory, 
until we fix the build not to do so, and for files we really think there 
is a common reason for many users to get in their source directory (like 
*.rej and *.orig), not for files that some random individual developer 
might long ago have been putting in their source directory.  Let's say

*~
*.rej
*.orig
configparms
autom4te*.cache
/linuxthreads
/linuxthreads_db
/rtkaio

of all the existing entries in the toplevel .gitignore (po/.gitignore 
looks OK at present), and maybe not even all of those.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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