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* [PATCH] Remove a tag file before it is regenerated
@ 2009-04-22  3:38 Matt Kraai
  2009-04-25  7:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matt Kraai @ 2009-04-22  3:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sam Ravnborg, linux-kbuild; +Cc: Matt Kraai

If a tag file is not removed before it is regenerated, the newly
generated data is appended to the old, which preserves stale data and
makes the tag file grow over time.

Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
---
 scripts/tags.sh |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
index 5bd8b10..4a34ec5 100755
--- a/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -164,10 +164,12 @@ case "$1" in
 		;;
 
 	"tags")
+		rm -f tags
 		xtags ctags
 		;;
 
 	"TAGS")
+		rm -f TAGS
 		xtags etags
 		;;
 esac
-- 
1.6.2.3


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* Re: [PATCH] Remove a tag file before it is regenerated
  2009-04-22  3:38 [PATCH] Remove a tag file before it is regenerated Matt Kraai
@ 2009-04-25  7:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sam Ravnborg @ 2009-04-25  7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matt Kraai; +Cc: linux-kbuild

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:38:23PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> If a tag file is not removed before it is regenerated, the newly
> generated data is appended to the old, which preserves stale data and
> makes the tag file grow over time.

Thanks - applied.

	Sam

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