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[PATCH/RFC] Teach git-clean optional <paths>... parameters.

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 8, 2006, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID
<7v1wv4gx0r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

When optional paths arguments are given, git-clean passes them to underlying git-ls-files; with this, you can say:

	git clean 'temp-*'
to clean only the garbage files whose names begin with 'temp-'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 * I usually do not use clean myself, so I am not sure if this
   is the kind of thing people who do use 'clean' regularly
   would generally want, hence this RFC.
 Documentation/git-clean.txt |    5 ++++-
 git-clean.sh                |   13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 36890c5..b95545f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-clean' [-d] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X]
+'git-clean' [-d] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] <paths>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Removes files unknown to git.  This allo
 from files that are not under version control.  If the '-x' option is
 specified, ignored files are also removed, allowing to remove all
 build products.
+When optional `<paths>...` arguments are given, the paths
+affected are further limited to those that match them.
+
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
diff --git a/git-clean.sh b/git-clean.sh
index b200868..6c818f4 100755
--- a/git-clean.sh
+++ b/git-clean.sh
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ #
 # Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Pavel Roskin
 #
 
-USAGE="[-d] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X]"
+USAGE="[-d] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] <paths>..."
 LONG_USAGE='Clean untracked files from the working directory
 	-d	remove directories as well
 	-n 	don'\''t remove anything, just show what would be done
 	-q	be quiet, only report errors
 	-x	remove ignored files as well
-	-X	remove only ignored files as well'
+	-X	remove only ignored files as well
+When optional <paths>... arguments are given, the paths
+affected are further limited to those that match them.'
 SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Yes
 . git-sh-setup
 
@@ -44,8 +46,11 @@ do
 	-X)
 		ignoredonly=1
 		;;
-	*)
+	-*)
 		usage
+		;;
+	*)
+		break
 	esac
 	shift
 done
@@ -64,7 +69,7 @@ if [ -z "$ignored" ]; then
 	fi
 fi
 
-git-ls-files --others --directory $excl ${excl_info:+"$excl_info"} |
+git-ls-files --others --directory $excl ${excl_info:+"$excl_info"} "$@" |
 while read -r file; do
 	if [ -d "$file" -a ! -L "$file" ]; then
 		if [ -z "$cleandir" ]; then
-- 
1.3.2.gb012
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