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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2017-05-20 08:51:55 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2017-05-20 09:57:21 +0200
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documented the make files-update make optiontmp-stacked-options
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
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are always active.
+# Auto-generated files:
+ Several parts of the documentation and the command line tools parameters
+files (.def) are auto-generated. Normally when introducing new functions,
+or adding new command line options to tools you need to run 'make
+files-update', review the output (when feasible) and commit it separately,
+e.g., with a message: "auto-generated files update".
+
+
# Guile bindings:
Parts of the Guile bindings, such as types (aka. "SMOBs"), enum values,