Re: [PATCH 10/10] clean: support cleaning sparse checkout with -S

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Nov 16, 2010, 03:07 UTC

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> 2010/11/16 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:

>> Hmm, that's new.  Seems fine, though; a person using -S would be
>> forwarned.
>
> It's safe, which is why I let it do that without '-f'. One can always
> checkout those entries again (provided that they know what entries to
> checkout).
>
> How do you want them to be warned?

Manual and -h output, ideally.

>		OPT_BOOLEAN('S', NULL, &sparse, "remove tracked files outside sparse checkout"),

Maybe something to the effect of

		OPT_SET_INT('S', NULL, &sparse,
			"prune worktree to sparse pattern (even without -f)", 1),