From e92bbcb1b1ced7f72aa8dfa7de5e274344f77b6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 01:22:21 +0000
Subject: Give a useful hint if the user runs "ninja clean" and there is no
 "clean" target

---
 src/ninja.cc | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ninja.cc b/src/ninja.cc
index 0b3ffe5..ecf8421 100644
--- a/src/ninja.cc
+++ b/src/ninja.cc
@@ -195,9 +195,13 @@ bool CollectTargetsFromArgs(State* state, int argc, char* argv[],
       } else {
         *err = "unknown target '" + path + "'";
 
-        Node* suggestion = state->SpellcheckNode(path);
-        if (suggestion) {
-          *err += ", did you mean '" + suggestion->path() + "'?";
+        if (path == "clean") {
+          *err += ", did you mean 'ninja -t clean'?";
+        } else {
+          Node* suggestion = state->SpellcheckNode(path);
+          if (suggestion) {
+            *err += ", did you mean '" + suggestion->path() + "'?";
+          }
         }
         return false;
       }
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