From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:53:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add clean-obsolete-scripts target
Message-ID: <81b0412b0701100453t63b62867ne67819e91f1319b9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701101319480.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 1/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Cygwin, newly builtins are not recognized, because there exist both
> the executable binaries (with .exe extension) _and_ the now-obsolete
> scripts (without extension), but the script is executed.
>
> "make clean-obsolete-scripts" removes these ambiguities by removing the
> older of these file pairs.

Not enough. You have to cleanup the build directory too,
otherwise tests fail, and git-hacking on git itself is ... complicated.