On 11/05/2017 09:38 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 09:16:31PM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: >> The real question would be: "is there anybody, doing some kind of >> development on sparse and who won't use git?" > > Sure: anyone doing packaging. If someone wants to package Sparse for a > distribution, they'll likely do so in a way that does not include .git > in the source package. And if that package wants to "make clean" for any > reason, or if someone grabs the source from that distribution for > development and happens to run "make clean", that would be *bad*. Ack with my sparse Debian package maintainer hat on. If you check the Debian build logs (e.g. https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=sparse&arch=arm64&ver=0.5.1-2&stamp=1506419417&raw=0) you can see that the first relevant step after extracting the source tar and applying patches is to run make clean. Best regards Uwe
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