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[PATCH v2] clean: add --null option

From
Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2012, 09:09 UTC
Message-ID
<1334480962-18778-1-git-send-email-rosslagerwall@gmail.com>

Add a --null (-z) option to git-clean which prints out the files and directories separated with a NUL character rather than '\n'. This makes it useful in conjunction with xargs -0.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
---
This updated patch converts use_nul to a static variable and reformats
some lines.
 Documentation/git-clean.txt |    7 ++++++-
 builtin/clean.c             |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 79fb984..0150484 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
+'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-z] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X]
+	    [--] <path>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -40,6 +41,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --dry-run::
 	Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done.
 
+-z::
+--null::
+	Separate paths with the NUL character.
+
 -q::
 --quiet::
 	Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are
diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c
index 0c7b3d0..9ce01d1 100644
--- a/builtin/clean.c
+++ b/builtin/clean.c
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@
 #include "quote.h"
 
 static int force = -1; /* unset */
+static int use_nul;
 
 static const char *const builtin_clean_usage[] = {
-	"git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <paths>...",
+	"git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-z] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <paths>...",
 	NULL
 };
 
@@ -34,6 +35,15 @@ static int exclude_cb(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void print_path(const char *msg, const char *name)
+{
+	if (use_nul) {
+		fputs(name, stdout);
+		putchar('\0');
+	} else
+		printf(msg, name);
+}
+
 int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -50,6 +60,8 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct option options[] = {
 		OPT__QUIET(&quiet, "do not print names of files removed"),
 		OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, "dry run"),
+		OPT_BOOLEAN('z', "null", &use_nul,
+			    "paths are separated with NUL character"),
 		OPT__FORCE(&force, "force"),
 		OPT_BOOLEAN('d', NULL, &remove_directories,
 				"remove whole directories"),
@@ -152,20 +164,22 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			qname = quote_path_relative(directory.buf, directory.len, &buf, prefix);
 			if (show_only && (remove_directories ||
 			    (matches == MATCHED_EXACTLY))) {
-				printf(_("Would remove %s\n"), qname);
+				print_path(_("Would remove %s\n"), qname);
 			} else if (remove_directories ||
 				   (matches == MATCHED_EXACTLY)) {
 				if (!quiet)
-					printf(_("Removing %s\n"), qname);
+					print_path(_("Removing %s\n"), qname);
 				if (remove_dir_recursively(&directory,
 							   rm_flags) != 0) {
 					warning(_("failed to remove %s"), qname);
 					errors++;
 				}
 			} else if (show_only) {
-				printf(_("Would not remove %s\n"), qname);
+				if (!use_nul)
+					printf(_("Would not remove %s\n"), qname);
 			} else {
-				printf(_("Not removing %s\n"), qname);
+				if (!use_nul)
+					printf(_("Not removing %s\n"), qname);
 			}
 			strbuf_reset(&directory);
 		} else {
@@ -173,10 +187,10 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 				continue;
 			qname = quote_path_relative(ent->name, -1, &buf, prefix);
 			if (show_only) {
-				printf(_("Would remove %s\n"), qname);
+				print_path(_("Would remove %s\n"), qname);
 				continue;
 			} else if (!quiet) {
-				printf(_("Removing %s\n"), qname);
+				print_path(_("Removing %s\n"), qname);
 			}
 			if (unlink(ent->name) != 0) {
 				warning(_("failed to remove %s"), qname);
-- 
1.7.10
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