From: Pavel Roskin Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:32:29 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-clean command Message-ID: <1144164749.30675.12.camel@dv> In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0604040217s3b8863d3w1b79400c42ca2b90@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 11:17 +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > On 4/4/06, Martin Waitz wrote: > > What is the use case of cleaning up all untracked files without also > > cleaning ignored files? > > Thinks of git's .gitignore: it has config.mak in it. Are you sure you want > "clean" your build customizations? In may case, I normally want to remove copies of the sources. For example, I take foo.c, make a clean copy of it, then I change and test it. If if doesn't work and I want to try another approach, I copy it to foo.c-bad or foo.c-approach1. I also make diffs between files to see what exactly I changed. I may also create files for output, valgrind logs and so on. At some point, I'm satisfied with foo.c, so I commit it. Then I want to remove copies, diffs and other stuff. Yet I don't want to rebuild everything. It's very rare that I add a new file, and I always remember to add it to the version control. But I'll consider adding an option to only remove ignored files. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin