tech-repository: Re: Use of .a as a source file extension causes cvs import issues

Subject: Re: Use of .a as a source file extension causes cvs import issues
To: None <tech-repository@NetBSD.org, tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-repository
Date: 10/11/2007 14:33:24

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:35:22AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> The use of .a as an extension breaks import of a CVS *export* into another
> CVS repository, which is the other common (and often faster) way to do it.
> 
> No, I don't know what the rationale is for the default ignore list including
>  .a

Archives created by "ar", mostly (but not necessarily) used as object libraries.

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