[Nagiosplug-devel] [nagiosplug] tools/distclean: use git-clean when possible

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 04/28/2010 12:04 PM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> 
> tools/distclean: use git-clean when possible
> 
> git-clean is much faster and more reliable...
> 

This is a bad idea. It will kill all random-files one has
in the repository in addition to all the build-produce.

I lost 4 weeks worth of debugging data when I tried this
clever trick once.

Since you know where all the buildstuff ends up anyway,
it's a lot better to keep track of it in lists and whatnot.

Besides, a lot of the reasons for "distclean" goes away if
you use "git archive" to produce tar-balls.

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