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Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> writes:
> On 2023-08-29, Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:
>> Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> writes:
>>> On 2023-08-25, Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:
>>
>> [configure & friends in git]

[...]

>> Never check anything into git which is supposed to generated from
>> something else also checked into git. In case someone else did this,
>> remove it. 
>
> By and large, and by default, we should follow the configuration
> management principle that secondary/derived objects are not put into
> version control, only primary ones. This principle agrees with what you
> are saying. When not sure, don`t check in the derived object.
>
> There are exceptions though.

[easily building old releases]

> If you check out a baseline from ten years ago, you get the
> correct ten-year-old configure script or y.tab.c, which
> were generated with the version of the generators used at the
> time.

Hmm ... in my opinion, the chances that a ten year old version of
anything non-trivial will compile, let alone work, on a current Linux
system are exceedingly slim and an old system will have the old tools
available.
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