Re: Hacking on PostgreSQL via GIT

aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca (Aidan Van Dyk) writes:
> I've "diffed" a CVS checkout and a git checkout, and the are *almost*
> identical. Almost, because it seems like my git repository currently has 3
> files that a cvs checkout doesn't:
> backend/parser/gram.c |12088 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.c | 2887 ++++++
> interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.c |16988 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> And at this point, I haven't been bothered to see where those files came
> from (and where they dissapear) in CVS and why my import isn't picking that
> up... I could probably be pushed if others find this repo really useful,
> but those files problematic...

Those three files are normally generated by either flex or bison
(gram.c depends on gram.y, pgc.c on pgc.l, and preproc.c on
preproc.y); I'd suggest removing those three files from your git
repository.
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