Chris Johnson <chrisjohns...@gmail.com> writes: > I am a mailing list noob so I’m sorry if this is the wrong format or > the wrong please. > > Here’s the setup for the bug (I will call it a bug but I half expect > somebody to tell me I’m an idiot): > > git init > echo "/A/B/" > .gitignore
You tell Git that anything in A/B/ are uninteresting. > git add .gitignore && git commit -m 'Add ignore' > mkdir -p A/B > touch A/B/C And create an uninteresting cruft. > git status And Git does not bug you about it. > git clean -dn This incorrectly reports "Would remove A/" and if you gave 'f' instead of 'n', it does remove A/, A/B, and A/B/C. Despite that "git clean --help" says 'only files unknown to Git are removed' (with an undefined term 'unknown to Git'). What it wants the term mean can be guessed by seeing 'if the -x option is specified, ignored files are also removed'---so 'unknown to Git' does not include what you told .gitignore that they are uninteresting. IOW, Git knows they are not interesting. It looks like a bug in "git clean -d" to me. Do you see the same issue if you use "git clean" without "-d"? IOW, does it offer to remove A/B/C?
