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Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

> I am somewhat unhappy that a make clean at the top level and remake was
> not sufficient to get a working tree.

Sympathetic I am (since I was bitten by it too), but I am not
sure what the right thing to do.

It is certainly incorrect to say that it is a driver error to
git-pull (or git-checkout to switch branches) without running
"make clean" first to get rid of perl/Git.c while your Makefile
still knows it is a generated file.  Our Makefile should be more
helpful.

But the question is Makefile in which branch?

Ideally, if Makefile of each and every branch head currently
alive knew that perl/Git.c is problematic and removed it, then
we would not suffer from this problem.  But it's obviously not
practical.