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Add uv build --clear that behaves like rm -r ./dist && uv build to clear artifacts from previous builds. This avoids accidentally publishing the wrong artifacts and removes accumulated old builds.

See #10293 (comment)
Fixes #10293

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Add --clear to uv build to remove previous artifacts
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Add `uv build --clear` that behaves like `rm -r ./dist && uv build` to clear artifacts from previous builds. This avoids accidentally publishing the wrong artifacts and removes accumulated old builds.

See #10293 (comment)
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Clear old builds
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Depends on astral-sh/uv#16371
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#[arg(long, conflicts_with = "list")]
pub force_pep517: bool,

/// Remove build artifacts from the output directory after a successful build.
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I think this needs to be clearer that it'll remove stale build artifacts and not the new ones :)

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Clear old builds (#46)
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Closes #45

Depends on astral-sh/uv#16371
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build(deps): update astral-sh/uv to v0.9.7
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### [`v0.9.7`](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md#097)

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##### Enhancements

- Add Windows x86-32 emulation support to interpreter architecture checks ([#&#8203;13475](astral-sh/uv#13475))
- Improve readability of progress bars ([#&#8203;16509](astral-sh/uv#16509))
- Add GitHub attestations for uv release artifacts ([#&#8203;11357](astral-sh/uv#11357))

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- Drop terminal coloring from `uv auth token` output ([#&#8203;16504](astral-sh/uv#16504))
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This release contains an upgrade to Astral's fork of `async_zip`, which addresses potential sources of ZIP parsing differentials between uv and other Python packaging tooling. See [GHSA-pqhf-p39g-3x64](GHSA-pqhf-p39g-3x64) for additional details.

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- Upgrade GraalPy to 25.0.1 ([#&#8203;16401](astral-sh/uv#16401))

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- Add `--clear` to `uv build` to remove old build artifacts ([#&#8203;16371](astral-sh/uv#16371))
- Add `--no-create-gitignore` to `uv build` ([#&#8203;16369](astral-sh/uv#16369))
- Do not error when a virtual environment directory cannot be removed due to a busy error ([#&#8203;16394](astral-sh/uv#16394))
- Improve hint on `pip install --system` when externally managed ([#&#8203;16392](astral-sh/uv#16392))
- Running `uv lock --check` with outdated lockfile will print that `--check` was passed, instead of `--locked`  ([#&#8203;16322](astral-sh/uv#16322))
- Update `uv init` template for Maturin ([#&#8203;16449](astral-sh/uv#16449))
- Improve ordering of Python sources in logs ([#&#8203;16463](astral-sh/uv#16463))
- Restore DockerHub release images and annotations ([#&#8203;16441](astral-sh/uv#16441))

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- Check for matching Python implementation during `uv python upgrade` ([#&#8203;16420](astral-sh/uv#16420))
- Deterministically order `--find-links` distributions ([#&#8203;16446](astral-sh/uv#16446))
- Don't panic in `uv export --frozen` when the lockfile is outdated ([#&#8203;16407](astral-sh/uv#16407))
- Fix root of `uv tree` when `--package` is used with circular dependencies ([#&#8203;15908](astral-sh/uv#15908))
- Show package list with `pip freeze --quiet` ([#&#8203;16491](astral-sh/uv#16491))
- Limit `uv auth login pyx.dev` retries to 60s ([#&#8203;16498](astral-sh/uv#16498))
- Add an empty group with `uv add --group ... -r ...` ([#&#8203;16490](astral-sh/uv#16490))

##### Documentation

- Update docs for maturin build backend init template ([#&#8203;16469](astral-sh/uv#16469))
- Update docs to reflect previous changes to signal forwarding semantics ([#&#8203;16430](astral-sh/uv#16430))
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