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List:       netbsd-tech-userlevel
Subject:    Re: Use of .a as a source file extension causes cvs import issues
From:       Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios () cs ! uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       2007-10-11 12:33:24
Message-ID: 20071011123324.GB17741 () cs ! uni-bonn ! de
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:35:22AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> The use of .a as an extension breaks import of a CVS *export* into another
> CVS repository, which is the other common (and often faster) way to do it.
> 
> No, I don't know what the rationale is for the default ignore list including
>  .a

Archives created by "ar", mostly (but not necessarily) used as object libraries.

	-is
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