How to remove old source file?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 08:45:04PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 08:01:15PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > Detecting obsolete tarballs is not what git status is for. It should only be 
> > listing files that really need to be added to git (or to the lookaside 
> > cache).
> 
> It also breaks git clean which is used to clean files. What is the
> reason that making .gitignore append-only would be useful btw?
> What is the proper way in your opinion to clean all tarball but the
> required ones?

  git clean -xdf
  fedpkg sources

Of course it downloads the tarballs again :-/

I think it would be a nice fix to fedpkg to have 'fedpkg clean' do
something smarter than just pass through to 'git clean'.

Rich.

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