[boost] [range] Should html docs be checked in?

Subject: [boost] [range] Should html docs be checked in?
From: Mostafa (mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-28 05:22:13

Can the maintainer(s) of range answer this question that came up in the  
documentation ML:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 02:09:06 -0800, Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]>  
wrote:

> On 28 December 2013 00:15, Mostafa <mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden]>  
> wrote:
>>
>> If html files, or any other files for that matter, are auto-generated  
>> then
>> why are they included in the repo? The reason I ask because this  
>> difference
>> in boostbook version causes a lot of extraneous noise when I do a git
>> status. Instead of the three html files I was expecting to be modified  
>> when
>> I changed a qbk file there are 153 extra html files that show up as
>> modified.
>
> For many libraries they aren't. It's up to the library maintainer how
> they're managed. What you can do is rebuild the documentation from a
> clean checkout and commit that, then later edits shouldn't result in
> so many changes.