From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in. Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:28:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83d14nmebn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20171112180959.GB20916@ACM> <83inefmjuh.fsf@gnu.org> <20171112200651.GC20916@ACM> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510518529 7000 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2017 20:28:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 12 21:28:43 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDyrz-0001UH-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:28:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51198 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDys6-0001oY-CS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:28:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDyrz-0001oR-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:28:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDyrw-00019n-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:28:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDyrv-00019Y-U0; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4921 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eDyrv-0000sZ-9i; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:28:39 -0500 In-reply-to: <20171112200651.GC20916@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:06:51 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220112 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:06:51 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > 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.