On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:38:31 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:28:44 +0200 > Ãric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > > make clean removes generated files, but *.rej and *.orig are backups, > > which you may want to save or re-apply. > > What use are these backups really? We are using a (D)VCS, you are not > losing anything.
As Ãric said, the .orig files may contain uncommitted changes. The .rej files are information about what parts of the patch were *not* applied, which is information that is not retained anywhere else. --David
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