Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Nov 1, 2007, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20071101211848.GG2387@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pg5btis.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:27:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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.

There's this great SCM tool called git that we can use to investigate the history of changes.... :-)

Looks like it came from Cogito's cg-clean. No one else has it as far as I know, and I agree with others that it's a really not such a great idea. Fortunately most of the damage can be mitigated with "git config --global clean.requireForce true", but the newbies won't know to do that.

							- Ted