Re: Automatically keeping "last modified" up to date

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> I build several pieces
> of autotooled software from VC, and gnuplot is the only case
> where a straight build, with no editing, leaves me with a file
> in the source tree that is marked as "modified" relative to
> the repository.

I sympathize with everyone else here: I also don't particularly like
the fact that version.c and pdffigures.tex keep getting modified all
the time (while on the other hand the extremely useful "./configure"
script is excluded with the argument that generated files don't belong
to the source repository).

Mojca