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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:38:27PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> >> * we have lots other files in git.git that are autogenerated (the
> >> documentation files, for example)
> >
> > I'm not aware of any auto-generated files that are checked in. Can you
> > give an example?
> 
> man pages and html docs are commited, but in a separate branch. IOW,
> Junio abuses Git as a distribution mechanism, but keeps it totally
> separate from the actual sources.

OK, true; but that is a totally different mechanism, unless the proposal
is to autobuild a "this would be the release tarball" branch similar to
html and man branches.

-Peff