From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:03:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clean: Display more accurate delete messages
Message-ID: <7va9tlbx8v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5b69a9f1-0860-41da-914c-d55a17e54092@TX2EHSMHS026.ehs.local>

Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> writes:

>> > Use git clean --force --force to delete all untracked git repositories
>> 
>> But I am not sure if this is ever sane.  Especially the one that
>> removes an embedded repository is suspicious.  "git clean" should
>> not ever touch it with or without --superforce or any other command.
> As I mentioned in my email where I reported this incorrect git clean output, I
> have a use case where I want git clean to remove embedded repositories.
> Whether it is a sane one is probably a different discussion.

Why is it a different discussion?  If something is not sane, the
tool shouldn't encourage users to do such an insane thing.