From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:19:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files
Message-ID: <20200924091901.GA24954@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2009231502430.5061@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

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.