[PATCH] Ignore linuxdoc generated docs

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Mar 24 18:48:43 PDT 2010


On 2010-03-24 19:57, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> In a perfect world, no. This was done so that platform not having the
> doc generation tool
> can still be able to read the doc in txt form. A side-effect of having a
> file both in git and
> generated is that git will refuse to rebase due to a non clean directory
> following a make.
>
> The doc generation is disabled by default, so this should not happen
> often. I think the patch you
> have submitted is the best one can do under the circumstances.

AFAIK no other generated txt files are in git.  I somehow doubt that 
hw/dmx/doc/dmx.txt is more important than, say, 
hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.txt which is also generated and not in git. 
Any objections to a patch for their removal?


Yaakov
Cygwin/X



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