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[Martin Sandve Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 March 2013 22:58, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:52:54PM +0100, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> >   >  b) The list contains files like Changelog, CMakeLists.txt from the
> >   >  build system which obviously need to be retained, as well as meshes
> >   >  used by demos.
> >     Did you look at the wrong file?
> >   Yes...
> >     And I don't see why we need to keep the meshes. They will be
> >     downloaded and bundled as part of tarballs and distributions. And
> >     can
> >     be easily downloaded by users who clone the repository via a simple
> >     script.
> >   The consequence is that when downloading an earlier dolfin version the
> >   meshes may not be available or may have changed, unless we version
> >   the downloadable meshes as well.
>
> If you download a tarball for a release, then you will get everything
> bundled. It is only if you do 'git clone' and then revert to an
> earlier version that you run into trouble.
>
> I'm not planning to unpack all the old tarballs and remove
> stuff from them... :-)


Make that "when reverting to an earlier dolfin version" then, same issue
as the checked in code when debugging and looking for the version that
fails to run a demo.

Martin