Re: [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files

> 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.