Re: [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:08:26PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

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...