From 2e6cb8b0dc602ba4aa23d1ec7e3524a7268f59d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:38:23 -0700
Subject: kbuild: remove a tag file before it is regenerated

If a tag file is not removed before it is regenerated, the newly
generated data is appended to the old, which preserves stale data and
makes the tag file grow over time.

Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
 scripts/tags.sh | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'scripts')

diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
index 5bd8b1003d44..4a34ec591e8c 100755
--- a/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -164,10 +164,12 @@ case "$1" in
 		;;
 
 	"tags")
+		rm -f tags
 		xtags ctags
 		;;
 
 	"TAGS")
+		rm -f TAGS
 		xtags etags
 		;;
 esac
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