[Python-Dev] End of the mystery "@README.txt Mercurial bug"

[Oleg Broytman]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:11:04PM -0400, "Eric V. Smith" <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> On 6/25/2013 9:33 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org
> > <mailto:benjamin at python.org>> wrote:
> > 
> >     2013/6/25 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:victor.stinner at gmail.com>>:
> >     > And then I ran "make distclean"...
> > 
> >     You've left us hanging...
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, the final part is here: http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3954#c4
> > But still I have question as why hg complained about @README in the
> > first place.
> > Also, I hope make distclean is not working "inside" .hg folder.
> 
> I think that's exactly what's happening.
> 
> >From the bug report:
> 
> 	find $(srcdir) '(' -name '*.fdc' -o -name '*~' \
> 			   -o -name '[@,#]*' -o -name '*.old' \
> 			   -o -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' \
> 			   -o -name '*.bak' ')' \
> 			   -exec rm -f {} ';'
> 
> Will find files beginning with '@' inside subdirectories of $(srcdir)/.hg.
> 
> Just this week I saw someone use the logical equivalent of:
> 
> find $(srcdir)/* ...
> 
> to avoid this problem. It won't expand the .hg top-level directory.

   Or find \( -type d -name .hg -prune \) -o ...

Oleg.
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