Re: [PATCH 2/3] sparse-checkout: add 'clean' command

Derrick Stolee [off-list ref] writes:

A curious user may want to know "why are these directories still
around?" and the more verbose output would assist.

Understood.  That one is what I was primarily after, as opposed to
"These directories will be gone, as there is nothing interesting or
worth saving", which I find much less interesting (and perhaps
should only be shown with --verbose, as opposed to "this will be
kept even though it is out of cone, as it contains these things that
may worth saving", which I think is something the user would care
more).

quoted

I wonder if we need "-x" and/or "-X" options "clean" has (and
perhaps "-d" that is a no-op, as the whole point of this subcommand
is about removing directories from the working tree) to control its
operation a bit finer-grained way.

I'm of two minds here.

Same here, and that is why I said "I wonder" ;-)