From: brian m. carlson Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:18:21 GMT Subject: Re: Feat. req.: add a flag to `git clean` to also remove ignored nested repositories Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 2026-01-09 at 03:50:30, Simon Cheng wrote: > Currently, running `git clean -dxf` on a repository that includes > another repository under an ignored path would skip said repository: > > $ git clean -dxf > Removing foo > Skipping repository ignored-path/repo > Removing bar > > This is to request the addition of a new flag to allow altering this > behaviour, i.e. to make `git clean` remove those repositories too. > > For me, this feature is relevant for building `*-git` packages from > the AUR, for example https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/paru-git. By > default `makepkg` would clone the source repo into `./src/NAME`, which > creates the aforementioned condition. Without such an option on `git > clean`, cleanup after build is rather complicated. Does this work if you use `git clean -dxff` (that is, with a second `-f` flag)? I do often clean up ignored repositories that way (and it's documented to do that in the manual page), but I'm not sure if you're maybe doing something a little different from my workflow. If that _doesn't_ work for you, would you mind creating a quick shell script to demonstrate the problem that you're seeing so that we could provide better advice? -- brian m. carlson (they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA