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On 01/27/2012 05:10 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> Net: instead of solving the specific case of duplicate directories, >> let's use git to solve the general case of a dirty repo. > > I don't agree. We support building outside of git repositories, because > > a: we distribute tarballs > b: we build on platforms that don't support git > > We can't assume that > > a: git is present to do our work for us > b: that we can get it to delete all the build files, without also deleting > user owned files. distclean is careful to only delete the things that we > know we built. Before, you said: "This isn't a problem when building from a distribution tarball or other clean checkout, but it is causing "fun" (ie strange noisy catastrophic build failures) when anyone runs git pull on a build checkout, and then runs disclean before starting again." So yes. When you want this to be detected, git is availanle. --SteffenThread Previous | Thread Next