From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMT
Subject: Re: git clean ignore
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In-Reply-To: <CADjtP1FSAQZRyBCjPZ00Y2g=fdtRZWHP44XLqjor-OrYXAN-vw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 7, 2026, at 15:53, Sylvain Rabot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a big user of git clean -fdx which is the shortest path to a clean worktree.
>
> However, I repeatedly found myself deleting precious git ignored
> resources such as editor/debug configurations so I asked myself if the
> git ignore mechanism could be applied to git clean so that we can
> declare a list of patterns git clean should never remove.
>[snip]

Related: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1627.git.1703643931314.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/T/#u