[linux-elitists] More fun* with Git and make

[Don Marti]

Some of you showed up for this...
https://lwn.net/Articles/589196/

One more random idea. Instead of keeping track of
which files need to be ignored/cleaned up in _both_
.gitignore and the "clean" target in Makefile...

clean :
find . -print0 | \
git check-ignore -z --stdin | xargs -0 rm -f

DRY, right?

[Greg KH]

Post by Don Marti
Some of you showed up for this...
https://lwn.net/Articles/589196/
One more random idea. Instead of keeping track of
which files need to be ignored/cleaned up in _both_
.gitignore and the "clean" target in Makefile...
find . -print0 | \
git check-ignore -z --stdin | xargs -0 rm -f
DRY, right?

Yes, but doesn't that "catch" your .git subtree containing your
metadata? It's not good to delete those files...

greg k-h

[Don Marti]

Post by Greg KH

Post by Don Marti
Some of you showed up for this...
https://lwn.net/Articles/589196/
One more random idea. Instead of keeping track of
which files need to be ignored/cleaned up in _both_
.gitignore and the "clean" target in Makefile...
find . -print0 | \
git check-ignore -z --stdin | xargs -0 rm -f
DRY, right?

Yes, but doesn't that "catch" your .git subtree containing your
metadata? It's not good to delete those files...

Good point. I can get it to do that by adding
.git/* to .gitignore which I haven't done before.
Probably safer...

clean :
find . -path ./.git -prune -o -print0 | \
git check-ignore -z --stdin | xargs -0 rm -f