Remove conf/*.mk from svn (was: Re: Linking)

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:17:06 -0700 (PDT)
Viswesh S <viswesh_vichu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have modified the conf/common.mk accordingly as shown below.

GRUB developers,

I think we should remove conf/*.mk from the Subversion repository.  If
people are going to be developing on GRUB and checking out svn
branches, then I think it's fine to require them to have Ruby.  For
released tarballs that we expect non-developers to use, we just need to
generate the *.mk files and include them in the tarball.

What is the benefit of having conf/*.mk files in svn?  They cause lots
of merge conflicts: sure, the conflicts are easy to resolve by simply
choosing to take one of the revisions, but then that merge really has
not meaning, since it won't be in sync with your .rmk file until it's
once again regenerated and checked in.

Removing the autogenerated .mk files would also eliminate problems new
developers like Viswesh and I have encountered -- we won't be tempted
to modify a non-versioned file like this.

Regards,
Colin