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> From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 08:29:08 +0300
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Whenever I rebuild, I do:
> >
> > rm -fr *
> > git reset --hard
> 
> Probably the same but a bit less violent is "git clean -fdx" (maybe
> first with "--dry-run").

These targets need to do their job even when Git is not around, or the
source tree has no history data, so we cannot rely on Git for this
matter.