Re: build errors

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Werner LEMBERG's message of Sat Apr 24 04:49:07 +0000 2010:
> 
> > I thought that make distclean would put my build tree in the same
> > state as it would be in a freshly cloned repository.
> 
> Do `git status' to find out whether there are still additional files
> in your repository after `make distclean'.  Of course, this doesn't
> show the files which are ignored by patterns in `.gitignore' files,
> and maybe exactly this is causing problems.

git itself only has two different sources of information:

- the current version found in .git it compares against (called HEAD).
- changes to be committed (cache, index)

if you run git status git will show differences.

Changed to be comitted:
  This lists changes which were added to stage by git add


Changed but not updated:
  This lists changes compared to the index

untracked files
  This lists files which are not tracked by git (neither index nor HEAD)


So the untracked files section will list those additional files.

However it also will list files which did exist before.


comitting or adding changes to the stage is very cheap.
So a git way to test this is:

git add -A # add everything to stage
make
make distclean
git status # see modified section which will show differences to stage.
git reset # throw away changes added to stage by git add -A

Marc Weber