Re: [Libmesh-devel] supporting multiple methods

[Derek G. <fri...@gm...>]

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On Nov 24, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Roy Stogner <roy...@ic...> wrote:

> For comparison's sake, "what we had previously" was a state in which
> every few months I'd have to manually wipe and rebuild contrib/
> because our Makefiles got confused by a compiler change, and every
> few years I'd have to just outright check out the repo trunk from
> scratch because "svn update" "make clobber" etc. just weren't enough
> to unconfuse whatever had gotten confused in the build system.

Try using Git...

git clean -fxd

Works wonders.  I don't even bother with "make clean" anymore...  :-)