Hi Jeremiah, jerem...@pdp10.guru transcribed 946 bytes: > 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.
Where did this discussion take place? Would be good to read some details if possible. ng0 > 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? >
