Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"git clean" is about things that git usually do not care about
(i.e. things not in .gitignore, or even in .gitignore when -x is
given).  Everything else including "git stash" is all about what
git cares about (i.e. tracked paths).

Right. I *love* "git clean". Real men have everything they care about 
tracked by git, and thus by definition "git clean" is the safest operation 
possible. I don't understand how anybody can call it "unsafe".

I just wish it was quiet by default - right now it takes a _loong_ time to 
clean out your crud just because it scrolls forever talking about all 
those girly files you don't want to keep - and that it had -x and -d on by 
default, so that us *real* men wouldn't have to type so much.

But making it accept combined options, so that you can do "git clean -xdq" 
would certainly already be a huge improvement.

But yeah, I guess we could make the "clean.Imagirlyman" option (or however 
the "please-don't-hurt-me-by-default" option is spelled) the default. That 
way I'd just feel *extra* manly for immediately disabling it, and laughing 
at you wimps.

			Linus