Re: Patch to dynamically generate AUTHORS, modifications to HACKING

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> On 2002-07-11 at 12:02 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
> 
>> > Drat. I forgot to say first time round, can AUTHORS be removed
>> > from CVS please? There doesn't seem much point in keeping an
>> > out-of-date version in there when it's now automatically
>> > generated. Sorry to be a pest.
>>
>> You did mention it, and I have removed it.
> 
> Hmm, well, an anonymous _fresh_ checkout of about 10 minutes
> ago (14:40 +0000) has the patch I supplied applied, but:
> 
> 1. The AUTHORS file is still present.
> 2. There is nothing in the ChangeLog about the change (I assume
> you wouldn't put my ChangeLog entry in verbatim necessarily,
> but that you would merge it with others you were doing at the
> same time).

I was sure I had done that, but apparently not so.  See tomorrows update.

> Is anonymous CVS mucking me about again? I would have though
> that the whole thing would be mirrored from gold CVS very
> quickly, so the changes would either be all present or none
> would be.

Unfortunately, it only seems to update once a day.  I wish it'd listen for
commits and update after that.

-Lars

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