Re: New script: cg-clean

Dear diary, on Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:54:13AM CEST, I got a letter
where Pavel Roskin [off-list ref] told me that...

Hi, Petr!

Hi,

Unfortunately, my latest revision of cg-clean has "committed suicide"
just when I was about to post it.  Anyway, I would prefer to wait until
you apply my patch to cg-status to ignore all ignores.  That would allow
me to reuse cg-status.

well, I did quite a while ago. Unless the kernel.org mirroring system
broke, it should be already public.

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 01:29 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

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Here's the simplified cg-clean script.  Note that the "-d" option is not
working with the current version of git of a bug in git-ls-files.  I can
work it around by scanning all directories in bash, but I think it's
easier to fix git (remove "continue" before DT_REG in ls-files.c).

Is that fixed already?

It turn out it's quite tricky.  git-ls-files doesn't distinguish between
known and unknown directories.

In the long term, I would prefer to have directory information in the
index file - to make this kind of tasks easier, allow juggling with
empty directories etc.

One way to do it would be to check all
cached files and find all directories they are in.  Another approach
would involve "git-ls-tree -r", but I don't think it would be right
because we work with cache and current files, not with committed data
(but my knowledge is limited to make a call - I still need to read the
documentation about git).

Yes, we should certainly follow the index, otherwise you will e.g. lose
the files added by cg-add but not committed yet.

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