On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Andy Goth <andrew.m.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/21/2016 9:03 PM, Joe Mistachkin wrote: > > Andy Goth wrote: > >> The clean command has gotten very complicated, > > > > Unfortunately, most of the complexity is necessary and removing or > > changing the semantics would risk breaking existing repositories, > > including some of the ones I use on a daily basis. > > Yup, hence the "Fossil 2.0" in the subject line. But I'm very > interested to know how you use the features I'm struggling to myself > find a use fur. > My team and I don't have a use for a clean command in a VCS. The build systems "knows" how to clean up files it creates. Any other files not managed by the VCS are the responsibility of the user. I know some people like "clean" to help with making clean builds. But we see a proper clean build as making an entirely new check-out from just the content of the repository. Anything else is not truly clean.
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