From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier 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 15:40:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171112180959.GB20916@ACM> <83inefmjuh.fsf@gnu.org> <20171112200651.GC20916@ACM> <83d14nmebn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510519525 434 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2017 20:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:45:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 12 21:45:21 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 1eDz84-0008Kl-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:45:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDz8B-0006KF-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDz85-0006K8-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDz81-000872-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:45:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42581 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDz81-00086m-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:45:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDz7o-0007d4-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:45:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1I4Mo1OtnNo2uO6SpCBhFptieCY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:220115 Archived-At: >> I though that was what make bootstrap was for. > No, you are mistaken. FWIW, I'm in Alan's camp: I can never remember which kind of "clean" does what in the makefile. The only "clean" I know is either to create a fresh checkout (Bzr terminology, aka worktree in Git), or to use "git clean". Stefan