Re: [PATCH 0/9] worktree: fix bugs and broaden --force applicability

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:49:39AM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:

> On 30/08/18 21:14, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 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" ;-)
> > 
> 
> 'git clean -x' always removes _way_ more than I want it
> to - in particular, I lost my config.mak more than once.

Heh. I have done that, too, but fortunately mine is a symlink to a copy
that is held in a git repository. ;)

-Peff