SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Well, with the patch in question applied, "git clean -f" would be usable as a poor-man's replacement that removes "ignored and expendable" paths that match patterns listed in the file, so...
