As running make clean breaks the bootstrap script. I propose we leverage git's shallow clones (git clone --depth 1 $URL) and include the .git directory with the repo such that we could simply have make clean check for git and if it exists run git clean -xdf and then only if git fails to exist, fallback to the existing broken form; which needs to be corrected.
per discussion with g_bor[m] about the default automake clean rules being used currently; and per their suggestion bringing this question to this distribution list for further discussion. Additional wouldn't one want to pack the .git in the tarball to enable a simplified update method. jlicht pointed out that this would not be a problem yet for guix, but it does seem unconventional. It would not make sense for some bigger-repo projects (e.g. emacs) for sure though Given that discussion background does anyone have any problems, concerns or issues with the change proposed?
