From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 07:58:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] interactive git clean
Message-ID: <vpqli7s8rqp.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cR--LQSkxc27_tMRrEnFJFApymqK9268BQA0bab38W3OQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> The pattern [y] will match file named 'y'. It probably is unusual for
> files named 'y', 'n', etc. to exist in the top-level directory, but
> the gitignore patterns already provide an escape hatch for these
> unusual cases.

But how does the user know that?

I'd rather stay away from dwim that works in 99% of cases but do
something dangerous in the 1% remaining, and complex un-guessable escape
scheme to solve these few cases. The two stages (yes/no/edit, and then
escape patterns) is clear, and does not require so many additional
keystrokes.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/