From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in. Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:13:53 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <9ba6a5a2-d829-ad98-44a5-88d0191f1edd@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20171112180959.GB20916@ACM> <83inefmjuh.fsf@gnu.org> <20171112200651.GC20916@ACM> <83d14nmebn.fsf@gnu.org> <20171112215547.GD20916@ACM> <83a7zqn9d3.fsf@gnu.org> <20171113185343.GA3952@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510600451 8847 195.159.176.226 (13 Nov 2017 19:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:14:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 20:14:07 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 1eEKBI-0001vc-Cf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:14:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKBP-0001L3-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:14:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKBF-0001Kn-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:14:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKBE-0003iX-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:14:01 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:36272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKBB-0003eR-4j; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:13:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69F716113B; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:13:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id zuKpJH8fSFFW; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:13:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3DB16113C; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:13:53 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id rWEwoCZpENCv; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:13:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D159B160735; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:13:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20171113185343.GA3952@ACM> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:220150 Archived-At: On 11/13/2017 10:53 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > make distclean is broken. It purports to remove all files generated by > "configuring or building the program". The intent is that 'make distclean' gets you back to a distribution tarball, if all you've done is 'configure; make'. But that doesn't seem to be what you're asking for. If I understand you correctly, you want something that gets you back to a fresh git checkout if all you've done is './autogen.sh; ./configure; make', and since 'make distclean' doesn't do what you're asking for, you're saying it's broken. If I'm right, it would be more accurate to say that 'make distclean' is simply a tool that doesn't do what you want. Perhaps someone (you?) could implement a 'make gitclean' that does what you want.