Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:44:51 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>,
	PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] OS/X startup scripts
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> >Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be
> >huge.  To work around that you need to create a list of files to
> >exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to
> >get unmanageable.
> 
> $ make maintainer-clean
> 
> before the diff, which clears all those out.

Yeah, but then if you make a mistake with the patch and have to build
again to retest, you have to wait the whole thing to compile, which can
be annoying.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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