From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KMU9E-0003b6-So for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:44:20 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMU9B-0003Yf-U2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:44:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMU9A-0003Xw-GU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:44:17 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46448 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMU9A-0003Xm-70 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:44:16 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:47654) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMU99-0000wI-Nz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:44:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KMU2x-0005T0-J3; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:37:52 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KMU86-0004t5-9F; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:43:10 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:43:10 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080725204310.GF18149@thorin> References: <414717.45608.qm@web31604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080725081827.42534c83@gibibit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080725081827.42534c83@gibibit.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Subject: Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn (was: Re: Linking) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:44:18 -0000 On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:18:27AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:17:06 -0700 (PDT) > Viswesh S 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. I'd check with Okuji first. IIRC he didn't like that idea. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)