Re: i probably broke your build tree

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 17:12 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 16:00 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 16:17 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > Anyway, if you can't get it to build after this, a "git clean -dfx"
> > > would probably help (note that that will delete every non-git backed
> > > file in your checkout, so don't do that if you have random files with
> > > notes or build scripts or whatever in your tree).
> >
> > Yeah, let me emphasize this; I keep stuff in my build tree so I never
> > use -dfx otherwise I'd blow it away.  Be really, really careful with
> > -dfx.
>
> If you have a good .gitignore file, then git clean -fdX ("X" not "x")
> is, IMO, a much nicer command.
>
> That deletes only files which match .gitignore... which is usually what
> you want to clean all build products if your .gitignore is set up

Ah, actually that I did not know.  WHich means all my *.patch files
would be preserved, which is great.

Dan