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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by dilap on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:33PM (#16018644)
but tup tracks what it built, so a clean command would come for free and in fact be reliable!
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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by justhelpingout on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:22PM (#16020291)
In fact it is:

    sqlite3 .tup/db 'select name from node where type=4' | xargs echo rm -f

  [1]: https://github.com/gittup/tup/issues/120#issuecomment-64832104
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Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git by dilap on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:33PM (#16020321)
so silly this isn't included because of philosophical objections.

tup is in some ways brilliant, and i give it kudos for actually improving on make in many ways (unlike 99% of the make-replacement-hopefuls), but man oh man do i value and prefer software devs with a more user-focused philosophy.

(an excellent example of that would be homebrew, which arguably wasn't anything special from a pure-tech perspective, but had amazingly good product sense/user focus. imagine combining that attitude & ux skills w/ the technical brilliance of tup...)

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