On lör, 2010-01-09 at 17:19 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Oh.  Never mind.  That doesn't seem useful enough to be worth spending
> >> time on.  What I want is to ignore all of the build products, so that
> >> when I do 'git status' in my working tree, I only see the the files
> >> I've actually added/changed.  Now that you mention it, I think I had
> >> the same complaint about the .cvsignore files back when I was using
> >> CVS.  It seems like an odd charter.
> >>
> > Use a vpath build, and you'll keep those artifacts out of your source tree.
> 
> I suppose that's one answer, but of what use is it to ignore only the
> 'make distclean' leftovers?

That charter was established before make maintainer-clean was invented.



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