Re: [PATCH] Add git-clean command

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Apr 4, 2006, 10:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20060404105818.GA17326@mars.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmj2b3w3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:06:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I am not opposed to the command in the sense that I do not want
> to forbid people from doing what they want to do, but on the
> other hand I do not see why people (apparently many people) want
> to have something like this.  Are their "make clean" broken?

No reason to waste time on make clean. git ls-files -o | xargs rm Does the same job nicely.

Other typical usecases for me: Remove temporaries that I created while trying out stuff. Often I have a bunch of files named 'x', 'xx', 'fisk' etc. around for no use. An easy way to remove these without breaking my 'allmodconfig' build is nice. It anyway > 1 hour to build and I like to get rid of the untracked stuff in an easy way.

So use cases goes like this:
- Remove everything not tracked by git (including .gitignore files)
- Remove everything except tracked by git or ignored
- Remove ignored files (replacement of make clean) (seldom)

Above should work both from top-level dir and in subdirectories.

That is my minimal expectations to git clean. What Pavel came up with cover everything except the make clean replacement part.

Sam