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

[Yasushi SHOJI]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 13:23:37 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > FWIW, I'm in Alan's camp: I can never remember which kind of "clean"
>> > does what in the makefile.
>
>> We could have a new rule ("make bootgit", say?) that does a "git clean -fdx"
>> followed by a "make bootstrap". This rule would be useful only for developers
>> who are using git.
>
> And that would be utterly useless for me.  I have quite a few
> non-registered files around my repositories, for example those used by
> backup scripts, or diff files, or stdout/stderr from Emacs builds.

I agree.  It's too risky to blindly call 'git clean -fdx'.

Why don't we just use a build dir separate from the source dir?
I'm sure autotools supports it.
-- 
           yashi