Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] bjam failure.

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] bjam failure.
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-28 10:09:06

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.