Re: [BUG] git clean -X skips a directory containing only ignored files
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- Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
- Date
- Feb 1, 2012, 12:18 UTC
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- <4F292DAA.1000107@elegosoft.com>
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- <4F2814D7.8030504@sohovfx.com>
On 01/31/2012 05:20 PM, Andrew Wong wrote:
> I think there were a bit of discussions on this issues just while ago too: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/188605
Thanks, missed that.
Below a patch with an update for Documentation/git-clean.txt - I'm not sure if the issue should be described more accurate.?
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Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: tell about "git clean -Xd" bug
"git clean -Xd" doesn't work as expected (delete all ignored files and untracked directories), because Git's dir subsystem is skipping directories which both aren't explicitly ignored and don't hold any tracked files.
Tell about this limitation in BUGS.
Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com> --- Documentation/git-clean.txt | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 79fb984..888c07d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ OPTIONS Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. If an untracked directory is managed by a different git repository, it is not removed by default. Use -f option twice - if you really want to remove such a directory. + if you really want to remove such a directory. Also see BUGS + below. -f:: --force:: @@ -63,6 +64,11 @@ OPTIONS Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. +BUGS +---- +'git-clean -Xd' doesn't work as expected for directories which don't hold +any tracked files and aren't explicitly ignored either. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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