From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:38:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Define "precious" attribute and support it in `git clean`
Message-ID: <98387b86-1732-42bc-9ac5-d64a6617b2db@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <79901E6C-9839-4AB2-9360-9EBCA1AAE549@icloud.com>

Hi Sebastian

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023, at 14:37, Sebastian Thiel wrote:
> This highlights precious files by calling them out, but doesn't change the
> behaviour of existing flags.  Instead, the new flag `-p` is added which lets
> `git clean` spare precious files.

Why can't `clean` preserve precious files by default? And then delete them
as well with something like `--no-keep-precious`? Is there some backwards
compatibility concern?