Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> writes:
Doug Gregor writes:
Those files are there so that someone with a copy of Boost from CVS can read current documentation without having to generate it.
I agree that this is kind of nice
It's very important to some of us.
but checking generated files into the CVS repository is really not a good idea in my experience. It is just a matter of time before someone overwrites the files by accidently committing the (re-)generated versions. As a matter of fact, the CVS history suggests that accidents like this _have_ happened before. ;-)
In this particular case, it's a relatively benign accident. Probably we could take advantage of CVS admin scripts or branches to stop it, though. As far as I'm concerned, the gain is worth the potential pain. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com