From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:03:43 GMT
Subject: Re: clean bug on ignored subdirectories with no tracked files?
Message-ID: <CAG+J_DzBgQTdCoj8Y185+=+SpMMYgPXQXkta=o-Rson2xL8ytQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "clean" without "-x" is meant to preserve untracked but expendable paths
> (e.g. build products), so if something is removed that is untracked but
> matches the ignore pattern, then that is a bug to be fixed.  Care to roll
> a patch to fix it?

Okay, just confirming it is a bug. I'll add this e-mail to my todo
list, but I don't have time for a patch anytime soon. :-(

> Sorry for the confusion, but as I said, I do not use (hence nor care much
> about) "clean" myself, so...

Okay.

j.