Re: [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2020, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqr1qud9zl.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2009201914330.5061@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> What I am hearing here is that people with CMake & VS use "git clean
>> -dfx" when they want to go back to the pristine state, unlike those
>> who use "make distclean", and there is nothing to adjust for newly
>> discovered crufts we are leaving on the filesystem.
>
> Yes, that is my understanding.

I do not know if you have read other messages in the thread, but my current understanding of what we learned in this thread [*1*] is that those who use CMake, especially in a tree like ours that has its own Makefiles, (sh|w)ould create a throw-away directory and run build there, so even "git clean -dxf" is not part of their "clean" procedure.

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*1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200919004030.GB1837@danh.dev/