From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:50:05 GMT
Subject: Re: * [BUG] "git clean" does not pay attention to its parameters
Message-ID: <20071205105005.GA6961@uranus.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <7veje1zibm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:55:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@bluebottle.com> writes:
> 
> > In a repository with LaTeX documents, I tried to see what *.aux files are left behind after formatting, by running "git clean -n" with the latest git (1.5.3.7-1005-gdada0c1):
> >
> >   % git clean -n '*.aux'
> >
> > This however showed more than just '*.aux' files.  With the released version 1.5.3.6, the output is correctly limited to the files that match the pattern.
> 
> Yuck.  People actually use git-clean?

git clean -d -x is my friend.
It it a great way to delete all my temporary files named 'kurt', 'fisk', 'viggo', 'x*' etc.

	Sam