Re: git-clean buglet

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jan 23, 2008, 15:24 UTC
Message-ID: <47975C11.7050800@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <479759EC.4010002@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt schrieb:

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> 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 /'.

Well, 'git ls-files -o /' would be more similar, but that one lists the entire disk contents - not what I would have expected, either. Hmm...

-- Hannes

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