Kernel "make clean" kills repo

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Kevin Smith wrote:

> Chad Netzer wrote:
> > This could become a problem for other projects that adopt Mercurial, and
> > are using GCC to auto-generate dependencies.  Typically, these
> > dependency files are generated with the .d suffix, and are often deleted
> > as part of the Makefile 'cleaning' process.  Furthermore, the cleaning
> > commands will most likely, naively, just delete all .d files, borking
> > the Mercurial repository.  .i files also have a similar problem, as they
> > may be autogenerated, and thus, auto-deleted.
>
> Given the catastrophic results, it seems worth considering changing from
> .i and .d to some rarer extensions. If the results were merely confusing
> or inconvenient, or if the only problem were with some obscure
> development tools or processes, I would be less concerned.

Yes, that was my idea also:  don't use those [dangerous] "extensions."

> It really shouldn't be that easy for an SCM to silently lose data.

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~Randy