Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] interactive git clean

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

The pattern [y] will match file named 'y'. It probably is unusual for
files named 'y', 'n', etc. to exist in the top-level directory, but
the gitignore patterns already provide an escape hatch for these
unusual cases.

But how does the user know that?

I'd rather stay away from dwim that works in 99% of cases but do
something dangerous in the 1% remaining, and complex un-guessable escape
scheme to solve these few cases. The two stages (yes/no/edit, and then
escape patterns) is clear, and does not require so many additional
keystrokes.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/