On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 04:34:43PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:55 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The tmp-doc-diff directory isn't strictly a build product of > > the Makefile, since it's only present if you manually run > > the doc-diff script. But anybody running "make clean" would > > probably want it to go away. > > > > Suggested-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile > > @@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ clean: > > $(RM) manpage-base-url.xsl > > + $(RM) -r tmp-doc-diff > > Taking into consideration that people might be surprised and alarmed > to find "git worktree list" showing a worktree they didn't explicitly > create, would it make sense to do something like this? > > clean: > ... > -git worktree remove -f tmp-doc-diff 2>/dev/null > $(RM) -r tmp-doc-diff Seems reasonable. Again, I don't have a strong feeling. It's a little strange to me for the Makefile to be touching bits outside of the actual working tree. But then, creating a separate worktree in the first place is perhaps a little weird. I dunno. Maybe you are right that worktrees are a bad fit here. -Peff
