From: Devste Devste <devstemail@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:00:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git clean deletes negated pathspec if directory causing data loss
Message-ID: <CANM0SV3qgqjWeAu+NvfPxeDLgo6-eRWKmi9xkpUtN6w7LJh7oQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CANM0SV3iRF=jVAFj=+rrgOC_nXEJ=_v1bUG88n3T9+PQD=a2-A@mail.gmail.com>

Anyone?

On Sun, 5 Oct 2025 at 13:33, Devste Devste <devstemail@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just to clarify: it's not about the negation not working, but clean
> ignores the pathspec for ignored directories completely. I only want
> to delete .rej and .log files, but it will also delete gitignored
> directories (that may or may not contain any .rej or .log files)
>
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2025 at 13:27, Devste Devste <devstemail@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am using:
> > git version 2.51.0.windows.1
> >
> > Run:
> > echo .idea/dictionaries >> .gitignore
> > mkdir -p .idea/dictionaries
> > touch .idea/dictionaries/foo.xml
> > git clean -f -f -d -X --dry-run -- ':!/.idea/dictionaries' ':*.rej' ':/*/*.log'
> >
> > Outputs:
> > Would remove .idea/dictionaries/
> >
> > No matter how you specify the pathspec (':!.idea',...) it always wants
> > to delete the .idea/dictionaries directory, even though it does not
> > contain any .rej or .log files and is explicitly set to excluded