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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by rkangel on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @04:55PM (#16018371)
For what use case do you need to perform a 'clean'?

Every time I have needed to clean a Makefile based project it has been due to imperfections of the build system, i.e. needing to do a full rebuild. In theory (I've never used tup in anger) you should never need to do that with tup because the dependecy gathering is so robust.

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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by dilap on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @06:13PM (#16018925)
maybe you want to time a rebuild, maybe somehow something outside of tup's knowledge changed, maybe you want to tar the directory w/o build artifacts, maybe you simply need to quickly free up some hd space, &c &c
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