From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:53:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] clean: support cleaning sparse checkout with -S
Message-ID: <AANLkTimrm2ArRn9Ym271iFEv2bstPPD0WPuP0=Majf0K@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101115213059.GJ16385@burratino>

2010/11/16 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
>
>>                                                              Files
>> that match the index exactly will be cleaned without "-f".
>
> Hmm, that's new.  Seems fine, though; a person using -S would be
> forwarned.

It's safe, which is why I let it do that without '-f'. One can always
checkout those entries again (provided that they know what entries to
checkout).

How do you want them to be warned?

>> --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
>>  SYNOPSIS
>>  --------
>>  [verse]
>> -'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
>> +'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X | -S] [--] <path>...
>
> So -S and -x don't combine?

No. Technical difficulties. Wait, nothing prevents me from doing that.
Yes combination is possible.

>>
>>  DESCRIPTION
>>  -----------
>> @@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ OPTIONS
>>       Remove only files ignored by git.  This may be useful to rebuild
>>       everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
>>
>> +-S::
>> +     Remove files tracked by git but are outside of sparse checkout.
>> +     Files that match the index exactly will be removed even when
>> +     '-f' is not given and clean.requireForce is no.
>
> Does "no" mean "yes" here?

Probably, need to look at the that config variable again :(
-- 
Duy