From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:25:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git clean --local
Message-ID: <87woosukkm.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAM+q9MeVS1e11vzu+-RP-i5NhSsnRz=x21q3gcGy8L62yceiMw@mail.gmail.com>


On Sat, Dec 01 2018, Cameron Boehmer wrote:

> 1) add a new flag
> -l, --local
>     Do not consult git config --global core.excludesFile in
> determining what files git ignores. This is useful in conjunction with
> -x/-X to preserve user files while removing build artifacts.

Or perhaps a general flag to ignore configuration would be useful for
such cases, see
https://public-inbox.org/git/87zhtqvm66.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/