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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 24, 2019, 14:15 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1902241515120.45@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5zt9oirx.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> >> Robert, care to come up with an example demonstrating where it does not?
> >
> >   sorry i wasn't clear, all i was pointing out was that "man
> > git-clean" *explicitly* mentioned two locations related to cleaning:
> > ...
> > without additionally *explicitly* mentioning core.excludesFile.
> 
> OK, so together with the homework Dscho did for you and what I wrote
> earlier, I think you have enough information to answer the question
> yourself.
> 
> That is, the code does *not* ignore, and the doc was trying to be
> (overly) exhaustive but because it predates core.excludesFile, after
> the introduction of that configuration, it no longer is exhaustigve
> and has become stale.
> 
> Which would leave a small, easy and low-hanging fruit, I guess ;-).

#leftoverbits

;-)

Thanks, Dscho

> Thanks.
>