From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:14:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] worktree: fix bugs and broaden --force applicability
Message-ID: <xmqqva7r4nof.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180830194634.GE19685@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I suppose so. I don't think I've _ever_ used distclean, and I only
> rarely use "clean" (a testament to our Makefile's efforts to accurately
> track dependencies). I'd usually use "git clean" when I want something
> pristine (because I don't want to trust the Makefile at all).

I do not trust "git clean" all that much, and pre-cleaning with
"make distclean" and then running "git clean -x" has become my bad
habit.  I jump around quite a bit during the day, which would end up
littering the working tree with *.o files that are only known to one
but not both of {maint,pu}/Makefile's distclean rules.  I even do
"for i in pu maint master next; do git checkout $i; make distclean; done"
sometimes before running "git clean -x" ;-)