Sometimes, multiple `git clean $ARGS` invocations (with the exact same
flags and parameters for each invocation) are needed to properly clean
out the desired files. Sometimes, `git clean $PATHS` just refuses to
clean the files it was explicitly told to clean. This patch series
aims to address these (very old) problems.
I was made aware of the problems when a user brought to me the
following testcase:
mkdir d{1,2}
touch d{1,2}/ut
touch d1/t
git add d1/t
With this setup, the user would need to run
git clean -ffd */ut
twice to delete both ut files. Digging further, I found multiple
interesting variants.
However, I am still slightly unsure of what the correct behavior is
supposed to be for one particular case, namely, if the clean command
were instead:
git clean -f '*ut'
(note that the glob is quoted to protect from shell expansion, and
that the -d option was removed), should the files still be cleaned? I
assumed yes and implemented that in patches 5-6, but the commit message
discusses this case, and patch 7 exists to change the implementation
to answer this question with a 'no'. Patch 7 should NOT should not be
accepted as-is -- it should either be dropped or squashed into earlier
commits, but which depends on the desired behavior.
Patches 1-2 are almost independent one-line fixes that could be
submitted independently. However, if we decide to keep the changes
from patch 7, then this series does depend on patch 2 for the tests to
pass.
Patch 3 adds four new testcases covering the variants I noticed.
Patch 4 fixes clean with explicit pathspecs and the -d option.
Patches 5-7 fixes clean with explicit pathspecs without the -d option.
Elijah Newren (7):
dir.c: Fix typo in comment
dir.c: fix off-by-one error in match_pathspec_item
t7300: Add some testcases showing failure to clean specified pathspecs
dir: Directories should be checked for matching pathspecs too
dir: Make the DO_MATCH_SUBMODULE code reusable for a non-submodule
case
dir: If our pathspec might match files under a dir, recurse into it
If we do not want globs to recurse into subdirs without -d...
dir.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
dir.h | 5 +++--
t/t7300-clean.sh | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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