Thread: Distclean does not remove gram.c

<div dir="ltr">The src/backend/parser/gram.c is a generated file, so shouldn't this be removed by `make distclean`, or
maybeeven by `make clean`?<br /><br />I did a `git clean -f -d` and even that did not remove gram.c, apparently because
thisfile _was_ alive at some point in the past hence git won't remove it even though the current branch does not have
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Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> writes:
> The src/backend/parser/gram.c is a generated file, so shouldn't this be
> removed by `make distclean`, or maybe even by `make clean`?

No.  It's shipped in distribution tarballs.  If you want all derived
files to be removed, use make maintainer-clean.
        regards, tom lane

Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>
> I did a `git clean -f -d` and even that did not remove gram.c, 
> apparently because this file _was_ alive at some point in the past 
> hence git won't remove it even though the current branch does not have 
> gram.c.
>
>

At first glance that looks like a git bug.

cheers

andrew

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>>
>> I did a `git clean -f -d` and even that did not remove gram.c, apparently
>> because this file _was_ alive at some point in the past hence git won't
>> remove it even though the current branch does not have gram.c.
>
> At first glance that looks like a git bug.

My guess is that either .git/info/exclude or a .gitignore file
someplace says to ignore gram.c.  git clean -df will not remove such
files; you need git clean -dfx if you want that.

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