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Fri Jul 29 16:50:57 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112634.html

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:38:31 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:28:44 +0200 > Ã‰ric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> > make clean removes generated files, but *.rej and *.orig are backups,
> > which you may want to save or re-apply.
> 
> What use are these backups really? We are using a (D)VCS, you are not
> losing anything.

As Ã‰ric said, the .orig files may contain uncommitted changes.  The
.rej files are information about what parts of the patch were
*not* applied, which is information that is not retained
anywhere else.

--David

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Stop ignoring Mercurial merge conflits files (#12255).