From: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:09:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-clean: Document --force --force
Message-ID: <3f0bbc3d-c605-4741-990f-99ba3c377e6b@CH1EHSMHS025.ehs.local>
In-Reply-To: <7vr4mk2jmy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 07:01:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> writes:
> 
> > Ping?
> 
> I *think* it is a mistake for the command to remove a separate
> project repository within, with any number of "-f", so I'd rather
> see a patch to fix it, instead of casting such a misbehaviour as a
> feature in stone by documenting it.
> 
> I dunno.

Since I use this feature, I naturally have to disagree. But fair point. And with
the patch rectifying git-clean output it's probably tolerable.

Though, what would be your way of cleaning files/dirs from a repository where
git-clean will report to have some left undeleted? Manually calling rm -rf?

	Soren