Re: uninstalling Git

From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
Date: Jul 8, 2008, 05:30 UTC
Message-ID: <87od59c58s.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>
In-Reply-To: <4872F3B0.6050406@jaeger.mine.nu>

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu> writes:

    Christian> I wonder why there's no "uninstall" make target.

This is a problem with lots of packages, not just git.  Here are two
things I do:
            
* When I remember, I use "gnu stow" to manage installations; doing so
  makes uninstallation easy.

* Failing that, I run

        find /usr -printf '%T@ ' -ls | sort -n | cut -d\  -f 2-

  and assume that all the installed files have the same last-modified
  timestamps -- once you've found one of them in that pipeline's output,
  you've found them all, since they'll all be adjacent.

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