Re: [PATCH] git-clean: remove fifo, devices, socket files

Hi Andrey,

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Andrey Vagin wrote:

What will be wrong if 'git status' will reports these [fifo/socket] files?

`git status` is intended to give you an idea what to commit next. And...

What will be wrong if 'git add' will returns an error instead of
skipping them silently?

... we *cannot* commit fifos or sockets. There is simply no representation
in Git's data model for them.

Having said that, I would welcome a patch that makes `git add` complain
about arguments that could not be added (and are not directories).

As to the patch in question, for the above-mentioned reasons, I think we
want to keep the existing behavior instead.

Ciao,
Johannes