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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 1:59:43 PM UTC, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-12-06, 嘱 Tiib wrote:
>> It's unclear to me why people put generated things in version control,
>> but it seems to happen over and over again.  I've certainly seen it
>> myself.
>> 
> Because if you've got a long tool chain, it can become rather difficult to
> go to a previous version. With git, you have to manually delete all the
> intermediaries, then re-run the image generator which generates a 
> resource script which generates C source which generates a Perl
> script which generates more C source which goes into the final product.

make clean ; make

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