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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:55:47 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> make clean and make distclean fail because around 12 files in m4/
> are missing.

These targets should be invoked _before_ checking out another
revision, not after.  Otherwise, you get a bunch of Makefile's that
are inconsistent with the working tree contents.