Re: [Distutils] How to prevent some .egg-info files being "touched" during a build/install process

At 03:05 PM 4/5/2007 -0400, Matt Good wrote:

I typically add the .egg-info folder to the "ignored" files in version control since the files in there will be automatically regenerated by the build process. Unless you have custom files that you put in the .egg-info folder (which I think is uncommon) you can probably just leave that folder out of version control too.

That's correct. Only projects that explicitly put files under .egg-info need to track them in version control, because all the automatically generated files are regenerated from setup.py whenever any command that needs them is run.