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Re: [PATCH] Add clean.requireForce option, and add -f option to git-clean to override it

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Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Date
Apr 24, 2007, 02:05 UTC
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<462D65F5.4060405@freedesktop.org>
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Josh Triplett wrote:
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> Michael Spang wrote:
>> Josh Triplett wrote:
>>> +if [ "$disabled" = true ]; then
>>> +	echo "clean.requireForce set and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean"
>>> +	exit 1
>>> +fi
>> How is it useful to abort completely? Wouldn't it be better to behave
>> like -n unless -f is given?
> 
> I don't think so, for a couple of reasons.
[...]

That said, a *separate* config option to make git-clean assume -n by default seems potentially useful as well.

- Josh Triplett
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