> Although it goes a long way, it doesn't always work -- it assumes that the > directory structure did not change in the project between the revisions - > distclean may not clean things that have changed since you updated the SVN > (note that to address that you should run distclean *before* the update). > Also note that R-devel is unstable for a reason -- as you are tracking it you > may encounter bugs in the build which will make your in-source build > (including distclean) break -- even if that bug is then fixed in next update > the damage has been done already so you cannot recover. This has happened > before, so in such cases you have to blow away everything and start from > scratch (from svn co ..).
One of the cool things about git is git clean - that allows you to remove all non-git files from the repo without having to do checkout from scratch. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
