On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:08:26PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > In any case, `git clean -dfx` strikes me as a perfectly acceptable > equivalent of `make clean` when no `make` is available, as is the case in > Visual Studio's case. Not at all: 'make (dist)clean' only removes build artifacts and leaves untracked files intact, while 'git clean -dfx' removes untracked files as well, so using the latter instead of the former might easily lead to data loss.
