Cleanbuild or not when using yay

When using yay to upgrade AUR packages what is the differences/result between selecting yes or no when prompted with the following question:

Packages to cleanBuild?
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When you cleanbuild it deletes all the old files for that package from the yay cache.

My advice is don’t cleanbuild unless your build fails. If it does, then cleanbuild.

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choosing to not clean up build files will merge changes what will be less to download also afaik …

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