On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 07:41:46AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 10:05 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:16:08PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > >>> Does it seem incorrect to anyone else that "git clean -X" doesn't > > >>> delete all the files in your workspace that are considered ignored > > >>> by "git status"? > > > > Well, reading the man page for `git clean` like a lawyer (my emphasis > > below): > > > > -X Remove only *files* ignored by Git. This may be useful to > > rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created > > files. > > > > So, it could be argued it does what it says, it removes all *files* > > ignored by git, not ignored *folders*. > > Yes, but that's what the -d option is for. You'll note that the -x > option has similar language regarding files.
No, not quite, this is from the man page again: -d Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. So, again when reading it as a lawyer, the folder is not untracked, it's ignored. The behaviour of `git clean -dX` when hitting an ignored folder is therefore unspecified. As is the experience of every C programmer, unspecified stuff is a source of much trouble. So I'd say that's another reason to raising a bug ;) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Code as if whoever maintains your program is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Anonymous
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