Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:06:51 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> > I think you have some stale files that you need to clean up, basically
> > anything that is not a versioned file.
> 
> I though that was what make bootstrap was for.

No, you are mistaken.  Bootstrap removes products of compilation, but
not other generated files.  That's what the various "*-clean" targets
are for, but generally it's much more reliable to just checkout or
clone into a fresh directory.