Re: Feature request - SVN command to clean a working copy of all unversioned and ignored files and directories

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:52:33 +0000, Simon Dean wrote:
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> I use Rake and Gradle (migrated to Gradle from Maven). Rake is used for .NET codebases and Gradle for Java. It's very easy for files to slip through a "clean" task.

Actually the whole notion of a 'clean task' is misleading. Any build
task should automatically contribute to a list of files/directories to
be deleted on 'clean'. After all, e.g. a javac task incarnation knows
what directories it would create, so it can put them on the clean
list. (Speaking for ant here, other build tools may be smarter there.)

> Problem is, a "clean" task doesn't "fail fast"

It can't. Failure there is an omission to do something; which could at best
be noted after the fact by the output of 'svn clean -n' being nonempty.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800