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Re: git stash --include-untracked possible destructive behavior

From
Joel Teichroeb <joel@teichroeb.net>
Date
Jun 8, 2017, 22:13 UTC
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It looks like it's an issue with git clean, as that's what stash uses internally. You can try your same test, but replace git stash with "git clean -df" and it will delete Data. Maybe clean should check if there are any ignored files in an untracked directory and only remove it if -x is specified?

Joel
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