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Re: [PATCH] git-clean: Display more accurate delete messages

From
SBSoren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Date
Dec 10, 2012, 17:04 UTC
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Hi Zoltan,
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 10:18:19PM +1100, Zoltan Klinger wrote:
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> >> Hrm, following your discussion (ellided above), I would have
> >> expected that you would show
> >>
> >>     Removing directory foo/bar
> >>     Removing untracked_file1
> >
> > Also it would be nice to have warnings about undeleted directories since this git
> > clean behavior (or the work around to pass -f twice) is not documented.
> > Without a warning you would probably miss that something was _not_ deleted.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. I think you're right. Showing 'foo/bar/bar.txt' in
> the list when 'foo/bar/' directory has been successfully deleted is just noise.
> 
> Would like to get some more feedback on the proposed output in case of
>  (1) an untracked subdirectory with multiple files where at least one of them
>      cannot be removed.
>  (2) reporting ignored untracked git subdirectories
> 
> Suppose we have a repo like the one below:
>   test.git/
>     |-- tracked_file
>     |-- untracked_file
>     |-- untracked_foo/
>     |     |-- bar/
>     |     |     |-- bar.txt
>     |     |-- emptydir/
>     |     |-- frotz.git/
>     |     |     |-- frotx.txt
>     |     |-- quux/
>     |           |-- failedquux.txt
>     |           |-- quux.txt
>     |-- untracked_unreadable_dir/
>     |     |-- afile
>     |-- untracked_some.git/
>           |-- some.txt
> 
> $ git clean -fd
> Removing untracked_file
> Removing untracked_foo/bar
> Removing untracked_foo/emptydir
> Removing untracked_foo/quux/quux.txt
> warning: failed to remove untracked_foo/quux/failedquux.txt
> warning: failed to remove remove untracked_unreadable_dir/
> warning: ignoring untracked git repository untracked_foo/frotz.git/
> warning: ignoring untracked git repository untracked_some.git/
> Use git clean --force --force to delete all untracked git repositories
> 
> $ # use forced remove
> $ git clean --force --force -d
> Removing untracked_foo/frotz.git
> Removing untracked_foo/quux/quux.txt
> Removing untracked_some.git/
> warning: failed to remove untracked_foo/quux/failedquux.txt
> warning: failed to remove untracked_unreadable_dir/
> 
> Can you see any issues with the proposed output, wording above? If
> everyone is happy,
> I'm going to prepare patch V2 for it.
Looks good to me.

Thanks, Soren

Previous: Zoltan Klinger
Message 11 of 11 in “git-clean: Display more accurate delete messages”
  1. git-clean: Display more accurate delete messagesZoltan Klinger, Dec 6, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2012
  3. Soren BrinkmannDec 7, 2012
  4. Zoltan KlingerDec 9, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2012
  6. Soren BrinkmannDec 10, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2012
  8. Soren BrinkmannDec 10, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2012
  10. Zoltan KlingerDec 11, 2012
  11. Soren BrinkmannDec 10, 2012

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