Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2007, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4pg5btis.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <916BE4AD-5BD9-48E6-8026-B1AC7387E28D@adacore.com>

Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> writes:

> I often type "make clean" as well many "git xyz" commands
> during development, and so it happens that at times, I type
> "git clean" by accident.

Happened to me once.  I hate that command.

> So, I propose *not* converting git clean to a C builtin,
> but instead adding --untracked and --ignored options to
> git-rm.

I think what you are trying to do is to deprecate or remove "git clean".

I do not know where "git clean" came from. I am suspecting that it was to give counterparts to some other SCMs, but do not know which ones. Some people wanted to have it --- so you need to convince them that it is a bad idea first. Adding an equivalent options to "git rm" alone does not solve that issue.