Junio C Hamano writes:
> If "git clean" takes a pathspec, perhaps you can give a negative
> pathspec to exclude whatever you do not want to get cleaned,
> something like
>
> git clean '*.o' ':!precious.o'
>
> to say "presious.o is ignored (hence normally expendable), but I do
> not want to
> > Would something like git clean --exclude=file-pattern work as a
> > compromise notion? Files matching the pattern would not be cleaned
> > regardless of .gitignore or their potential preciousness status
> > long-term. Multiple repetitions of the --exclude option might be
> > supportable. I
"Randall S. Becker" writes:
> Would something like git clean --exclude=file-pattern work as a
> compromise notion? Files matching the pattern would not be cleaned
> regardless of .gitignore or their potential preciousness status
> long-term. Multiple repetitions of the --exclude option might be
On December 2, 2018 8:26, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 01 2018, Cameron Boehmer wrote:
>
> > 1) add a new flag
> > -l, --local
> > Do not consult git config --global core.excludesFile in
> > determining what files git ignores. This is useful in conjunction with
> > -x/-X to
On Sat, Dec 01 2018, Cameron Boehmer wrote:
> 1) add a new flag
> -l, --local
> Do not consult git config --global core.excludesFile in
> determining what files git ignores. This is useful in conjunction with
> -x/-X to preserve user files while removing build artifacts.
Or perhaps a
Junio C Hamano writes:
> Cameron Boehmer writes:
>
>> 1) add a new flag
>> -l, --local
>> Do not consult git config --global core.excludesFile in
>> determining what files git ignores. This is useful in conjunction with
>> -x/-X to preserve user files while removing build artifacts.
> ...
>
Cameron Boehmer writes:
> 1) add a new flag
> -l, --local
> Do not consult git config --global core.excludesFile in
> determining what files git ignores. This is useful in conjunction with
> -x/-X to preserve user files while removing build artifacts.
This does not belong to the "clean"
-x and -X are great, but they remove files that are ignored via my
~/.gitignore that I'd rather keep (personal toolchain dotfiles). If
others also would like to see this addressed and we settle on a
specific solution, I'd be happy to submit a patch. Some ideas:
1) add a new flag
-l, --local
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