Re: v1.5.4 plans

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 - git-clean's handling of directory wildcards. I didn't get a response
   to

     http://mid.gmane.org/20071206043247.GC5499@coredump.intra.peff.net

   I suspect there are still some bugs lurking in there, but it's hard
   to say because I don't know what the behavior _should_ be (there are
   some test cases in that email).

The last time I looked at the "directory" side of builtin-clean.c, I had
to quickly reach for my barf bag.  I never use "git clean" without "-n"
and I never ever use "git clean" with "-d"; I do not have any idea what
behaviour when given "-d" would be useful.

When you have a trash directory without any tracked files, clean will not
by default descend into that directory and thus won't remove neither files
nor directory. I frequently use one for automated testing, much like git's
trash repository, but the only time I do "git clean -d" is when building
things on a release-server with the repository checked out. It's faster
than "make distclean", and not all of our projects have a Makefile to begin
with. Tacking "git clean -d" at the end of test-scripts makes it simple to
remove all excess cruft in one go.

So in short, git clean -d can be useful. I have no idea when "git clean dir"
would be though.

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