Roman Yakovenko wrote:
>> because it is a directory that gets created automatically. If the
>> directory exists, calling "svn status" reports all the (generated) files
>> in the directory as files that have not been added yet. This list can
>> get rather large and makes it difficult to spot the files that have
>> really changed.
>> Whereas if the directory is not part of the repository we only have to
>> add this single directory to the ignore list and "svn status" produces a
>> clean result.
>
> I thought, that directory structure should be fully prepared for distutils
> module.
Yes, but only at the time the distutils are running. And at that time,
epydoc has already been invoked and the directory will exist. It doesn't
matter who actually created the directory, so it doesn't have to be
stored in svn.
- Matthias -
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