Re: error building emacs from clean clone

[Noam Postavsky]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:32 AM, Phillip Lord
<address@hidden> wrote:

>> Cloning from scratch is overkill, 'git clean -fx' will delete
>> everything not directly from git. That way you don't have to download
>> everything from the beginning.
>
> git clean -xdf
>
> I got hit by this once. Need to kill the directories as well.

Oh thanks, updated INSTALL.REPO.

> We could add that to top-level Makefile.

I think it's a bit too dangerous for the Makefile.