Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:27:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> writes:
>
> > I often type "make clean" as well many "git xyz" commands
> > during development, and so it happens that at times, I type
> > "git clean" by accident.
>
> Happened to me once. I hate that command.
Speaking of hateful commands, git stash clear is one of them.
I tend to type git stash clean, which creates a "clean" stash...
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> > So, I propose *not* converting git clean to a C builtin,
> > but instead adding --untracked and --ignored options to
> > git-rm.
>
> I think what you are trying to do is to deprecate or remove "git
> clean".
>
> I do not know where "git clean" came from. I am suspecting that
> it was to give counterparts to some other SCMs, but do not know
> which ones. Some people wanted to have it --- so you need to
> convince them that it is a bad idea first. Adding an equivalent
> options to "git rm" alone does not solve that issue.
Well, they could add an alias, then ;)
Mike
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>