From: Thomas Rast Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:53:09 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean: confirm before cleaning files and directories Message-ID: <87y5c565ca.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> In-Reply-To: Jiang Xin writes: > I don't know how many programmers had been bitten by runing `git clean -fdx`, > but I bet there were some. I think safety should be put to the 1st place. > It is because "clean.requireForce" defaults to true, all people trend to run > 'git clean' with the '--force/-f' option. But if that's the real problem, wouldn't it be better to introduce something like clean.requireForce=interactive (or 'ask', or whatever you make up) which will be like clean.requireForce=true except that when on a TTY, we ask the user? -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch