Re: [stellation-res] Files that don't belong in CVS

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've removed 'bin' folder contents from the CVS plug-in projects.

Build.xml files need further discussion.
Re: 'build' folders -- there's some possibility that some of these folders may
contain useful content (which should exist elsewhere, but who knows :<(
-- so I'm not touching them at present.

- Jim

At 02:54 PM 2/11/2003, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:

> Mostly +1. These are build products, and as such, don't belong in
> our repository. (Now, if we had a repository with audited builds,
> that would be a different story, but we don't.

<snip>


> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:43, Jim Wright - IBM Research wrote:
> > In the course of generating my recent patches, I tripped over a number of
> > files that really don't belong in CVS.
> > These include:
> >
> > Eclipse-generated build.xml files
> >     (because they contain platform- and window-toolkit- specific 
> properties)
> > All contents of 'bin' folders
> > All contents of 'build' folders
> >
> > The presence of these files complicate patch generation and increase 
> the time
> > it takes to sync with the repository.
> >
> > I would like to delete them from our CVS repository (and ask committers to
> > avoid checking them in in future).
> >
> > Comments?  Votes for/against?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
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