From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: error building emacs from clean clone
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:45:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9bgZkan1DxTc63w+yTV44P_rXtsXCFpjcE8FmH0Gb6uA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efqbfivd.fsf@russet.org.uk>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:32 AM, Phillip Lord
<phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
>> Cloning from scratch is overkill, 'git clean -fx' will delete
>> everything not directly from git. That way you don't have to download
>> everything from the beginning.
>
> git clean -xdf
>
> I got hit by this once. Need to kill the directories as well.
Oh thanks, updated INSTALL.REPO.
> We could add that to top-level Makefile.
I think it's a bit too dangerous for the Makefile.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-10 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-09 14:25 error building emacs from clean clone Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-09 15:58 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-09 22:32 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-09 22:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-10 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-10 2:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-10 8:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-10 8:51 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-10 9:17 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-10 9:32 ` Phillip Lord
2017-10-10 9:45 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-10-10 8:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-10 8:52 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-10 8:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-10 9:09 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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