Re: [Feature request] Add -u option to git rm to delete untracked files

From: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Date: May 27, 2020, 12:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20200527124445.GB2013@danh.dev>
In-Reply-To: <1098602171.79502.1590528083387@mail.ziggo.nl>

On 2020-05-26 23:21:23+0200, Erik Janssen <eaw.janssen@chello.nl> wrote:

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> Would it be feasible to add a -u option to git rm to specify that
> I also want a file deleted if it is not tracked by git?
> Currently, git rm -f can remove files in whatever state it seems,
> except when it is untracked. 
> By allowing a -u option (-u: also delete untracked files) I would be
> sure that the file is gone while it would also make sure that it
> doesn't break past behaviour where people perhaps rely on git rm to
> leave untracked files alone.

I _think_ remove untracked file is pretty much risky operation, and it should be done separately/independently (via git-clean(1)).

Let's assume we have -u|--untracked, nothing (probably) can stop our users from:

	git rm -u src
	git rm -u .

Even git-clean(1) requires either --force or --interactive because it's too much risky to begin with.

If we think Git as a FileSystem, its rm should only care about its tracked file. I prefer to just rm(1) instead of "git-rm -u".

-- 
Danh