git-clean buglet

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jan 23, 2008, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <479759EC.4010002@viscovery.net>

Try this in your favorite git repo:

    git clean -n /

Here, it responds with:

    fatal: oops in prep_exclude

I don't know what the expected behavior should be, but certainly not this. Maybe just do nothing like 'git ls-files /'.

I'm not familiar with either builtin-clean.c nor dir.c; perhaps someone else can fix this?

-- Hannes

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