I usually agree with that. The projects I was referring to are either Go (where the norm is to check in code-gen'ed files, so that things are `go get`able), or

I usually agree with that. The projects I was referring to are either Go (where the norm is to check in code-gen'ed files, so that things are `go get`able), or static websites (where every commit will get rolled out as soon as you push it).