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BUG: 'make clean; make' won't rebuilt 'git'

Subject: BUG: 'make clean; make' won't rebuilt 'git'

## tl;dr

One message between Nov 17, 2005 and Nov 17, 2005.

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Wayne Scott· Nov 17, 2005, 13:58 UTC · lore

The 'make clean' target doesn't remove the 'git' application and since the 'git' make target depends on git.c directly it won't get rebuilt after a clean.

The net result is that if you do:
   make
   make clean
   make prefix=/usr/local
   make prefix=/usr/local install

it won't install the correct git binary.

-Wayne

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