# [PATCH] Makefile: remove *.spec from clean target

2 messages from 2018-02-17 to 2018-02-17. Participants: Todd Zullinger, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/47869

## Todd Zullinger, 2018-02-17 03:06

Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: remove *.spec from clean target
Message-ID: <20180217030623.GT27038@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180217030623.GT27038%40zaya.teonanacatl.net

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Support for generating an rpm was dropped in ab214331cf ("Makefile: stop
pretending to support rpmbuild", 2016-04-04).  We don't generate any
*.spec files so there is no need to clean them up.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
---

I noticed this minor cruft today.  Since we don't generate a
spec file, this is at best unneeded.  At worst we could
wrongly delete a users spec file if they happened to be
working on it in their git clone and called make clean.

 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c56fdc14ca..d135f8baa1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2734,7 +2734,7 @@ clean: profile-clean coverage-clean
 	$(RM) $(TEST_PROGRAMS) $(NO_INSTALL)
 	$(RM) -r bin-wrappers $(dep_dirs)
 	$(RM) -r po/build/
-	$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
+	$(RM) *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
 	$(RM) -r $(GIT_TARNAME) .doc-tmp-dir
 	$(RM) $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.tar.gz
 	$(RM) $(htmldocs).tar.gz $(manpages).tar.gz
-- 
2.16.2

-- 
Todd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
    -- W. C. Fields


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## Junio C Hamano, 2018-02-17 21:27

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove *.spec from clean target
Message-ID: <xmqqvaev489b.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqvaev489b.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com
In-Reply-To: <20180217030623.GT27038@zaya.teonanacatl.net>

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Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:

> Support for generating an rpm was dropped in ab214331cf ("Makefile: stop
> pretending to support rpmbuild", 2016-04-04).  We don't generate any
> *.spec files so there is no need to clean them up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
> ---
>
> I noticed this minor cruft today.  Since we don't generate a
> spec file, this is at best unneeded.  At worst we could
> wrongly delete a users spec file if they happened to be
> working on it in their git clone and called make clean.

Makes perfect sense.  Thanks.


>
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index c56fdc14ca..d135f8baa1 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -2734,7 +2734,7 @@ clean: profile-clean coverage-clean
>  	$(RM) $(TEST_PROGRAMS) $(NO_INSTALL)
>  	$(RM) -r bin-wrappers $(dep_dirs)
>  	$(RM) -r po/build/
> -	$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
> +	$(RM) *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
>  	$(RM) -r $(GIT_TARNAME) .doc-tmp-dir
>  	$(RM) $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.tar.gz
>  	$(RM) $(htmldocs).tar.gz $(manpages).tar.gz
> -- 
> 2.16.2

```