Re: Unexpected "clean -Xd" behavior

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

-X is to remove ignored files _only_ (DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag). And
"foo" is not ignored according to .gitignore, so it cuts short there
and never gets to "foo/a". -x works.

Makes sense.

I guess the internal logic is that "git clean -fdX" cleans up files
that "git clean -fd" would miss, and this is not such a file ("git
clean -fd" removes it).  But as Pete mentioned, in this edge case the
behavior renders "git clean -fdX" less effective than expected at its
primary task as poor man's "make clean".

I'd be happy to see a patch that moves to a different set of semantics
or an addition to t/t7300-clean.sh and BUGS section in
Documentation/git-clean.txt explaining the current limitations, if
someone wants to work on that.

Thanks, both.
Jonathan