git pull on repo, local changes?

[Aaron Laws]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Whitmore <arigead at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've built GnuCash from source on my Linux machine, installing to /opt
> using a
> prefix in the build process. That was weeks ago and I decided that I'd
> better
> pull, for recent goodness, and build again.
>
> I'm hit with a rather long list of local changes when I try to 'git pull'
> have
> I done something wrong or should those files be in a .gitignore file?
>
> $ git status | more
>
> On branch maint
> Your branch is behind 'origin/maint' by 22 commits, and can be
> fast-forwarded.
>   (use "git pull" to update your local branch)
> Changes not staged for commit:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
>
>         modified:   ChangeLog
>
> Untracked files:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>
>         gnc-guile
>         src/app-utils/app-utils.go
>         src/app-utils/business-options.go
>         src/app-utils/business-prefs.go
>         src/app-utils/c-interface.go
>         src/app-utils/config-var.go
>         src/app-utils/date-utilities.go
>         src/app-utils/gettext.go
>         src/app-utils/hooks.go
>         src/app-utils/migratable-prefs.xml
>         src/app-utils/migrate-prefs.go
>         src/app-utils/options.go
>         src/app-utils/prefs.go
>

To avoid this, build "out-of-tree":
cd gnucash; mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. -G Ninja; ninja check;

Instead of 'cmake .. -G Ninja', you can issue '../autogen.sh; ../configure;
make -j 4', or however you want to build.

Then, to clean your repository, it's as simple as
cd gnucash; rm -r build;

Hopefully that's helpful!