From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:42:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Teach git-clean optional <paths>... parameters.
Message-ID: <1147128134.3353.13.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wv4gx0r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 12:02 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> When optional paths arguments are given, git-clean passes them
> to underlying git-ls-files; with this, you can say:
> 
> 	git clean 'temp-*'
> 
> to clean only the garbage files whose names begin with 'temp-'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>

>  * I usually do not use clean myself, so I am not sure if this
>    is the kind of thing people who do use 'clean' regularly
>    would generally want, hence this RFC.

I'm not likely to use this feature, but I think it's OK to have it.

It would be nice to have "--" support (see e.g. git-commit).

> +	-X	remove only ignored files as well

That's my stupid error, "as well" should be removed.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin