Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] interactive git clean

>>     WARNING: The following items will be removed permanently. Press "y"
>>     WARNING: to start cleaning, and press "n" to abort the cleaning.
>>     WARNING: You can also enter the "edit" mode, and select items
>>     WARNING: to be excluded from the cleaning.
>
> The user intended for files to be removed when invoking git-clean,
> therefore WARNING that git-clean will do what was requested explicitly
> seems overkill. Along the same lines, the user asked explicitly for an
> interactive session (via --interactive), hence the above paragraph is
> effectively redundant since it does little more than tell the user (in
> a lengthy fashion) what he already knows (that the session is
> interactive). The short prompt printed after the listed files says the
> same thing (more succinctly), thus this warning paragraph is
> essentially superfluous.

>> In this confirmation dialog, the user has three choices:
>>
>>  * Yes: Start to do cleaning.
>>  * No:  Nothing will be deleted.
>>  * Edit (default for the first time): Enter the edit mode.
>
> What about the user who desires more traditional "rm -i" behavior in
> which he is prompted for each file? Should that be supported with a
> "Prompt [each]" option in the above menu?

> More generally, is this sort of modal edit mode desirable and
> convenient? Can the edit operation be combined with the top-level
> prompt? For example:
>
>   % git clean -i
>   file1 file2 file3
>   file4 file5 file6
>   Remove ([y]es, [n]o, [p]rompt, exclusion-list)? file[4-6]
>   file1 file2 file3
>   Remove ([y]es, [n]o, [p]rompt, exclusion-list)? p
>   file1 (y/n/q/!)? y
>   file2 (y/n/q/!)? n
>   file3 (y/n/q/!)? y