
Hi all, I just found out I lost some (hours of) work, because de-bootstrap threw away some files which I temporarily renamed to "*.orig". Whether or not this was a good idea, I'm wondering what de-bootstrap's rationale is to remove those "original" files, which I don't think that match the description of de-bootstrap: This script ("./de-bootstrap") can be used to clean up the source tree, i.e., to remove all files that were created by "./bootstrap". <rant> In my case it did remove a file that was NOT created by bootstrap, and if bootstrap ever has a patch failing and produces an .orig (and .rej) file, I might prefer my unclobbered file to exist. In any case, I am NOT amused, and think -- considering the many wildcards in the script -- that it does far from what its description says. Of course it asks me whether or not I want to delete stuff, but sorry, I haven't written a script yet that performs the task de-bootstrap should have done to see whether it throws away a file it shouldn't even want to touch. And manually examining the two terminal heights long list of files also isn't my speciality. </rant>