On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:04:22PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:

> Agreed, though if you know the area you're working in, you can do a
> "make clobber" for part of the tree and then do "hg stat
> <top-of-subtree>".

True.  Still could be a massive amount of deletion.

> I'm also thinking about changing nightly(1) so that it does "hg stat"
> after it does "make clobber".  This would have the advantage of flagging
> clobber bugs as well as missing invocations of "hg add".

Indeed, that would be an interesting thing to note.

> Danek> With snapshots, you could make it work, but I'd rather see the
> Danek> build objects go into a separate part of the tree, I think.
> 
> Do you mean long-term, or do you mean we should do that instead of
> fixing "make clobber"?

Long term.  Fixing make clobber is a good thing, too.  But I'm not sure I'd
"fix up" .hgignore until all the build objects are (or can be) placed in a
tree of their own, or the performance issues worked out.

Danek

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