RE: Storing unversioned files in a repository.

Branko Cibej wrote:
> Tom Eastman wrote:
>
> >What I'll do instead is just move the pdf's to another
> >directory shared by apache, so it's no real problem.
> That's the best plan.

Well, this is one solution, but then you need something like wget
if you need to access those files.

> Imagine the potential for disaster if we had a version control system
> that allowed you to avoid doing version control. Ouch.

While I too can't see any point in storing generated PDFs in the repos,
there might be other use-cases for this feature. Here are two examples:

- IT-infrastructure changes sometimes. So we want to have a file which
  contains the current information where "make dist" should put released
  tarballs and such things. I think that there is no doubt that such a
  file should always contain the _current_ information.
- If you want to maintain one changes-file that contains all the changes
  made in all branches, then this file should be unversioned, too.

I admit that such use-cases are very rare and that it does not make much
sense to implement it before-1.0. But you can not say that there are _no_
such cases.

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Received on Mon Mar 31 12:35:19 2003