Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

[monarch_dodra]

On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 06:46:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 08:38:01 Marco Leise wrote:
>> Am Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:45:26 -0700
>> 
>> schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-gith
>> > ub-says-its-d
>> > 
>> > Andrei
>> 
>> This is why you don't put automatically generated files in
>> version control ... Especially when they have the file ending
>> used by an indexed PL on GitHub ;)
>
> Yeah. That was the great faux pas of that question. I'm not 
> aware of any good
> reason to put generated files in version control unless they 
> were only
> generated once and will never be generated again.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Well, depends how you use the version control I guess. You *can* 
use it for more than just going back in time or concurrent edits: 
You can use it as a redistributable network folder.

The company I work for does it that way. It means when you 
checkout a project, you don't have to run 10+ different tools to 
generate whatever it needs to generate: You are ready to roll. 
You save on time and headaches. Whenever someone changes the xml, 
you don't have to regenerate everything every time you resync. 
The overall time and overhead wasted by a few guys checking in 
their generated files is more than made up for everyone else not 
having to worry (or even know) about it. But to each their own of 
course, this works for _us_ .

Also, it means you can look at the generated files inside the 
repository.