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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:35:36 +0100
From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.40 kbuild bug: mrproper removes files it shouldn't remove
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:08:24PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> 'make mrproper' incorrectly deletes *~-style editor backup files

A vaguely related long time irritation :

cp .config .config-phew-saved-it
make mrproper

whoops !

regards
john

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"I will eat a rubber tire to the music of The Flight of the Bumblebee"
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