Re: Option for git bisect run to automatically clean up

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2012, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD21eCSzjJ3a0SxPTzzi2z4KMFr=1xE3j8fPz38AJrrJTQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAOMwXhOv7oGXhtWu0apmDD7x+Vnh0jkc2QrnSPmc-=KCQQ08Yg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org> wrote:

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> Hi everybody,
>
> I have just run into a problem when I had to issue an explicit cleanup for
> tracked files after a configure run in the Qt5 project. I have tried to
> suggest to the people to bring up this idea on the mailing list in order to
> get this further on. Unfortunately I did not have time to do so, especially
> for the follow-up. I have also been told it is not a good way of asking on
> IRC which surprised me a bit, but I am now bringing this up, and I try to
> also make the follow-up. Hope it is ok.

At first I thought that your idea was to have an option to "git bisect run" so that a "git bisect reset" is run automatically after the bisection is finished. But I search the IRC log and found the discussion here:

http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2012-09-27

and I found that you said:

"there should be an option for git bisect run which executed the "whatever clean command git has like git clean -fdx"./"

I understand that, but I wonder what we should do if some people need a "git reset --hard" and if some other people need other options than -dfx. We would need both a --reset and a --clean, or perhaps even a --reset[=(hard|mixed|soft|merge|keep) and a --clean[=<clean-opts>]. And then what if people want to clean only a subdirectory and not everything? And this does not take into account the fact that many people will/should clean using "make clean" or "make distclean" or "rake clean" or something like that, so that a --clean option will not help them.

Best, Christian.