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Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> writes:
> On 2023-08-25, Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:
>> Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> If you`re unfortunate enough to work with AutoTools, then for pete`s
>>> sake, generate the configure script, and the Makefile.in and whatnot,
>>> and check them into the repository. Do that every time they change.
>>
>> I routinely remove these from any source tree I seriously need to work
>> with because sooner or later, changes to all the autosomething files
>> will become necessary and intermediate autosomething files generated
>> from the others tend to get in the way then.
>
> If you have to change the configuration, you have to make a commit for
> that and check in the updated files. 
>
> That maintains the repository in a configurable, buildable state
> for a downstream user who deosn`t have AutoTools installed.

Downstream users are a problem I don`t have. Nevertheless, I think a
repository is something supposed to be used for development, ie, it
should be expected that users of it will make changes to .ac and .am
files. If the files generated from these are also in the repository,
nuisance git dances will have to be performed to deal with them and this
will also cause nuisance merge conflicts for updates.
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