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Re: does "git clean" deliberately ignore "core.excludesFile"?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 23, 2019, 18:06 UTC
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Hi,
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
> 
> >   am i misreading something? and if not, is there a reason git clean
> > does not consult core.excludesFile?
> 
> Can you ask "git log" and "git blame" whch of  core.excludesFile and
> "clean -x" features came earlier and by how big a difference?

Or maybe we can have a look why the `core.excludesfile` regression test case in t7300 does not catch this?

https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.21.0-rc2/t/t7300-clean.sh#L408-L417

Ciao, Dscho

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