[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] HACKING: Improve handling

[Michal Privoznik]

On 26.10.2015 16:03, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Generate the HACKING file at dist time like we're already doing for
> NEWS, AUTHORS and ChangeLog.
> 
> The file shouldn't be tracked by git as it's not a source file but
> rather a generated one; because of this, it should also be generated
> in $(builddir) as opposed to $(top_srcdir).
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> Andrea Bolognani (4):
>   HACKING: Generate inside the build directory
>   HACKING: Remove generated copy
>   HACKING: Add to ignore file
>   HACKING: Include in EXTRA_DIST
> 
>  .gitignore  |    1 +
>  HACKING     | 1008 -----------------------------------------------------------
>  Makefile.am |    3 +-
>  cfg.mk      |    3 +-
>  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1011 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 HACKING
> 

Frankly, I'd like to keep HACKING in the git. I know it's a generated
file, but the reasoning should be that a new contributor, who is about
to make his first contribution will clone the repo and the first thing
they should search for is Readme and HACKING files. I know that dealing
with the file which is then again generated from another file, keeping
them both in git may be counterintuitive, but I'd like to keep the file
there.

Michal