From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:23:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git clean --exclude broken?
Message-ID: <7vliuio65w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <A04A4D84-16CC-438C-8828-0D11BE9DE2DA@cpanel.net>

Todd Rinaldo <toddr@cpanel.net> writes:

> I think I have found a new bug in 1.7.5:

My quick check indicates 1.7.3 behaves the same way, and 1.7.2.5 didn't
have --exclude option, so this does not seem to be anything particularly
new in the 1.7.5 release.

> # The problem (Why is foo/ removed?)
> $>git clean -dXf --exclude=/foo
> Removing bar/
> Removing foo/

Why is this command line giving -X that tells us not to use the ignore
rules, and --exclude option at the same time?