From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 13:24:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify which paths git-clean will affect
Message-ID: <200905061524.52186.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vk54v1py6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > -If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, only those paths
> > -are affected.
> > +If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, those paths are
> > +affected.  Otherwise, the cleaning starts at the current directory.
> 
> With or without path limiters, clean does not look outside the current
> directory; I think the "otherwise" makes things worse than the original.
> 
> I'd suggest not touching this paragraph at all, but instead say something
> like this at the beginning:
> 
> > -This allows cleaning the working tree by removing files that are not
> 
>     Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
>     under version control, starting from the current directory.

Indeed, yours is better.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch