From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:17:17 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <DB2DC59C-8580-4AFE-860F-6E7C4A47499E@adacore.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pg5btis.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


On Nov 1, 2007, at 16:27, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> writes:
>> I often type "make clean" as well many "git xyz" commands
>> during development, and so it happens that at times, I type
>> "git clean" by accident.
>
> Happened to me once.  I hate that command.
>
>> So, I propose *not* converting git clean to a C builtin,
>> but instead adding --untracked and --ignored options to
>> git-rm.
>
> I think what you are trying to do is to deprecate or remove "git
> clean".

Yes, and in the meantime I'd like to discourage people
from spending time and effort to upgrade it to first
class built-in status.

   -Geert