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 This is a helper program to clean unused files from a project source directory.
 
-== Usage ==
+Usage:
 cleanmysourcetree <deletenew/keepnew> [<target directory>]
 deletenew will cause new files and directories created during the compilation process to be deleted.
 If no target directory is given, it defaults to the current directory.
@@ -9,4 +9,10 @@ If no target directory is given, it defaults to the current directory.
 under a different user. In particular if some build process decides to replace an
 existing folder with a symlink, things could perhaps get nasty.
 
+Empty directories will not be removed automatically. If you want to get rid of them, run this in the source tree:
+
+    find . -type d -empty -delete
+
 This code depends on the uthash library, or whatever you want to call that thing.
+
+The idea for this comes from Joshua J. Drake (jduck).
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