[python-committers] cherry picking, miss islington, and generated files

[Nick Coghlan]

On 4 February 2018 at 00:54, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2018, at 20:40, Mariatta Wijaya <mariatta.wijaya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, I sort of asked this in the past: what are the generated files, how to identify them, is there a pattern?
>
> I’m not sure there’s going to be a pattern so much as a list of such files.

- all C files may potentially contain Argument Clinic headers that
modify them in place
- build input files (configure.ac, etc) may change the other build artifacts

At the moment, I think we're still relying on humans to notice those
problematic cases, but we may be able to at least have CI fail if
"make regen-all" actually changes any file contents for checked in
files.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia