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Replace references to CVS with git #81

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fangism opened this issue Dec 31, 2024 · 1 comment
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Replace references to CVS with git #81

fangism opened this issue Dec 31, 2024 · 1 comment
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fangism commented Dec 31, 2024

Current versions of git don't honor .cvsignore files anymore.
This project started in CVS in 2004 before it was migrated to git in 2010.
There never existed a public CVS repo, so there is zero reason to retain any references to CVS.
It's time to migrate.

Files to migrate include:

  • configure, Make-related files
  • .cvsignore files and snippets
  • maintainer documentation
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fangism commented Dec 31, 2024

At the same time, it might also be a good idea to move to static .gitignore files, rather than generating pieces of them.
git's ignore-semantics are richer than cvs's.

fangism added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 3, 2025
Replace cvsignore with only gitignore.
CVS has not been used for many years.

Remove circular dependencies.

Follow-up may remove gitignore generation
altogether, in favor of static ignore files
and patterns.

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fangism added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 4, 2025
Replace uses of old CVS tags with git revisions.
Update some very stale maintainer documentation.

Caveat: gitrev.h will not automatically update
between git checkouts; it needs to be manually
removed and then regenerated.

For #81.
fangism added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 1, 2025
List ignored/generated documentation dirs in
Makefile.am AUTO_IGNORE.

Move extract_texinfo.awk to extract_texinfo.sh
and mkdir -p on the output files' directories.

For #81
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