Re: Distclean does not remove gram.c

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Distclean does not remove gram.c
Date: 2010-05-27 01:00:43
Message-ID: AANLkTill6MzULEOKiZ2GoWdqRdbwQbD815YsKiRhyYs0@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>>
>> I did a `git clean -f -d` and even that did not remove gram.c, apparently
>> because this file _was_ alive at some point in the past hence git won't
>> remove it even though the current branch does not have gram.c.
>
> At first glance that looks like a git bug.

My guess is that either .git/info/exclude or a .gitignore file
someplace says to ignore gram.c. git clean -df will not remove such
files; you need git clean -dfx if you want that.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company

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