[Asterisk-Dev] trivial patch requesting comments before filing

Kevin P. Fleming kpfleming at digium.com
Tue Nov 8 17:51:09 MST 2005


Jason Pyeron wrote:

> Better question why is it in CVS? Every time you do a make clean it is 
> incremented right? So this is a build artifact, not to be versioned.

No, that is not what it is for. It is there to indicate when a 'make 
clean' must be forced by the Makefile because API structures have 
changed and we want to ensure that people's builds work correctly. It is 
not created by the Makefile, and it is intentionally versioned.

> To answer your question. Maybe there are developers out there whose CVS 
> does not ignore dot files by default.

I don't understand that statement.



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