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

[Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hello, Emacs.
>
> I'm attempting to check out a moderately old version of Emacs with:
>
>     $ git checkout 10c0e1c

$ git show 10c0e1c | head -3
commit 10c0e1ca40237224aa229c538fe49983ec905748
Author: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Date:   Fri Feb 19 17:10:57 2016 +0000

>     make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/gnulib.mk.in', needed by 'Makefile'.  Stop.

$ git log lib/gnulib.mk.in | grep '^Date' | tail -2
Date:   Sun Mar 19 13:07:03 2017 -0700
Date:   Fri Mar 17 11:33:47 2017 -0700

It seems that at that time it wasn't there yet, so maybe the checkout of that
old version left some "debris" that confuses the makefiles?

What does "git status" gives you? Does it report "untracked files"? If so,
maybe a "git clean" could remove the problem...

ciao, lele.
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