Does not meet stated goal of the author: > The naive solution of simply backing up the entire file-system tree is clearly not desirable since that would clutte

Does not meet stated goal of the author: > The naive solution of simply backing up the entire file-system tree is clearly not desirable since that would clutter the backup with useless build artifacts. Build artifacts can be filtered out with tar --exclude patterns, but this is a language-dependent set that will require curation.