Re: what should "git clean -n -f [-d] [-x] <pattern>" do?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 30, 2024, 05:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20240130054401.GA166761@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87v87bx12j.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:49:08AM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:

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> > Please don't. I set it to "false", because I find the default behavior a
> > pointless roadblock if you are already aware that "git clean" can be
> > destructive. Surely I can't be the only one.
> 
> Well, provided there is at least one person who finds it useful to set
> it to 'false', I withdraw my suggestion.
> 
> That said, did you consider to:
> 
>   $ git config --global alias.cl 'clean -f'
> 
> instead of
> 
>   $ git config --global clean.requireForce false
> 
> I wonder?

Not really, as when I originally set the config in 2007, it was just undoing the then-recent change to default clean.requireForce to true. I already had muscle memory using "git clean" as it had worked historically from 2005-2007.

I know that isn't necessarily relevant for new users today, but my point is mostly that we have clean.requireForce already and people would probably be annoyed if we took it away. :)

-Peff