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From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 15:49:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : Create gitignore for
 autotools files
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 06:30:36PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> By pulling everything that autoconf generates out of the repo, forcing
> the user of the git version to generate them yourself, you effectively
> made those files build outputs. As we cannot store them out-of-tree
> (like object files), we have to ignore them in-tree.

Certainly having them in .gitignore is a handy way to avoid them
accidentally being commited again, if someone has a habbit of doing git
commit -a.

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Len Sorensn