From: Jonathan Gilbert <logic@deltaq.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:16:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 4:09 AM Bert Wesarg
bert.wesarg-at-googlemail.com |GitHub Public/Example Allow|
<xlwsizdz58ciy7t@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> in Git speak, that operation is called 'clean' (see 'git clean') why
> should we overload the 'revert' operation here?

It's less about overloading the 'revert' operation as overloading the
UI action which is currently called "Revert". I think it would be a
worse experience to have to activate a different option to remove
unwanted files as to remove unwanted changes. Maybe the UI option
could be renamed "Revert & Clean" or something?

As a side note, `git clean untracked-file` won't do anything with a
default configuration, you have to explicitly `-f` it. Not sure if
that's relevant, but it does feel like a higher barrier to entry than
`git revert`.

Thanks,

Jonathan Gilbert