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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Subject: HISTORY, INSTALL, README.CVS
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 19:29:55 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > One idea would be to replace file content with a single URL that
> > points to the development docs, then when the tarball is built, it
> > can overwrite those files.
>
> Please do not automatically overwrite files that are in CVS. That will
> lead to trouble. An alternative, which is actually in quite common
> use, is to simply provide a file README.cvs that explains various
> things about dealing with a CVS check out tree. When you make a
> tarball, you simply delete the file.
OK, I have removed HISTORY and INSTALL from CVS, and added a README.CVS
which contains URL's to that content.
Marc, would you modify your tar build script to remove README.CVS from
the tar file?
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