On Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:58:07 -0700 Bob Uhl <[email protected]> wrote: Hey Bob,
> How come? At least in my own workflow, I've been surprised by an > uncopied config.h repeatedly. My expectation is that if I change a > source file (e.g. config.def.h) that config.h will be updated. config.def.h contains the default settings. Of course you can change the defaults, but from a general perspective, it should remain unchanged. > But I always make my customisation changes to config.def.h and let git > merge DTRT when upstream changes things. I can see that if someone > makes them to config.h and manually copies over new config options > then he'd be surprised. Yes that's exactly the point. If I have a git-repo and a nice, fine-tuned config.h and do a git pull that pulls in config.def.h changes. When I run make, my config.def is overwritten and lost forever. This sucks. > Is this just a case where I'm not understanding how most folks are > performing their customatisations? See above. Cheers Laslo -- Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
