From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:11:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files
Message-ID: <xmqqblhvgkwk.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200924091901.GA24954@szeder.dev>

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...