On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:49:39AM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote: > On 30/08/18 21:14, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Jeff King <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> I suppose so. I don't think I've _ever_ used distclean, and I only > >> rarely use "clean" (a testament to our Makefile's efforts to accurately > >> track dependencies). I'd usually use "git clean" when I want something > >> pristine (because I don't want to trust the Makefile at all). > > > > I do not trust "git clean" all that much, and pre-cleaning with > > "make distclean" and then running "git clean -x" has become my bad > > habit. I jump around quite a bit during the day, which would end up > > littering the working tree with *.o files that are only known to one > > but not both of {maint,pu}/Makefile's distclean rules. I even do > > "for i in pu maint master next; do git checkout $i; make distclean; done" > > sometimes before running "git clean -x" ;-) > > > > 'git clean -x' always removes _way_ more than I want it > to - in particular, I lost my config.mak more than once.
Heh. I have done that, too, but fortunately mine is a symlink to a copy that is held in a git repository. ;) -Peff
