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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:11:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqblhvgkwk.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200924091901.GA24954@szeder.dev> ("SZEDER =?utf-8?Q?G?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A1bor=22's?= message of "Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:19:01 +0200")

SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:08:26PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> In any case, `git clean -dfx` strikes me as a perfectly acceptable
>> equivalent of `make clean` when no `make` is available, as is the case in
>> Visual Studio's case.
>
> Not at all: 'make (dist)clean' only removes build artifacts and leaves
> untracked files intact, while 'git clean -dfx' removes untracked files
> as well, so using the latter instead of the former might easily lead to
> data loss.

Well, with the patch in question applied, "git clean -f" would be usable
as a poor-man's replacement that removes "ignored and expendable" paths
that match patterns listed in the file, so...

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-24 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-17 20:37 [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-17 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 13:11   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-18 15:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 15:50       ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-09-18 16:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-19  0:40           ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-09-19  0:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 17:37           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-23 15:59             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 20:27               ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-23 20:38                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-25  6:40                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-24 10:34                 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-09-25  5:02                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-20 17:15       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-21 22:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 13:08           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-24  9:19             ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-09-24 17:11               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-09-23 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 17:53   ` Junio C Hamano

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