On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 11:29 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:16:24PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Both .mailmap and .travis.yml only make sense in the context of a git checkout, so we should not include them in releases.
Does it really matter if we include them though ? AFAIK they don't cause any harm, and it feels like we're just creating extra work for ourselves by deciding to exclude them. The same can be said of the .gitlab-ci.yml file, and supporting things we'll be introducing like the dockerfiles.
One of the things I like about meson is that we can essentially stop worrying about what goes into the dist tarball, and simply let it have the entire of git contents (aside from the couple of generated files we added). So my gut feeling says to not bother trying to exclude files.
It's certainly not a deal breaker to have a couple extra files in the release archives, but I think it's much tidier not to have them there. It's really not that much extra work anyway... But, if you and Pavel share the opinion that we shouldn't bother, I will not try to push this further :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization