From: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:28:16 GMT
Subject: Re: * [BUG] "git clean" does not pay attention to its parameters
Message-ID: <20071205152816.GA21347@mediacenter.austin.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <7veje1zibm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:55:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Does this patch help?  I am not sure why the directory side of the code
> is written that way, but I have a suspicion that "was a directory
> explicitly given as one of the pathspec" check is also bogus, although I
> did not touch that part.

Before the rewrite in C git clean would refuse to remove a directory if
you said:

   git clean dir

without using the -d parameter.  Per your suggestion this check causes
git clean to remove the directory anyway since you explicitly asked it
to.