In message 20060219210901.GA23565@mars.ravnborg.org you wrote:
If all files created during a build are included in .gitignore files then if you issue: 'git status' at any point in time (no need to run mrproper) you will get an overview over:
- modified files
- new files (listed as untracked files)
and more importanly the git status output is not cluttered with a lot of 'build noise'.
What prevents you from running "make mrproper" before running "git status" ?
This gives you the *additional* bebefit to see if any of your Makefiles misses to clean some files...
If you then like to check the properness of make mrproper you issue 'make mrproper' and then what was not cleaned by 'make mrproper' shows up with 'git ls-files-o'.
-> git ls-files-o git: 'ls-files-o' is not a git-command
;-)
TIMTOWTDI...
I don't see any significant benefit. It's simply not worth the time.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk