I usually just do `cvs diff' :-)
>> i.e. I can put patterns like "*.o" ".config" etc etc but it will take time
>> to find them all out.
You can probably find them by looking at the `distclean' targets
in the Makefiles.
> do cp -rl before everything else and build on a mirror tree. Vi knows
> how to deal with links, so it doesn't create a separate copy when you edit
> file. Even if you are using the abortion from MIT the first variant will go.
I can't resist pointing out that although the default behavior of God's
editor doesn't handle symlinks (and hardlinks of course) in that way,
it's very easy to fix it (like I did years ago) in your .emacs:
(setq-default backup-by-copying t)
or better yet:
(setq make-backup-files nil)
-- Stefan
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