Re: [PATCH 2/3] sparse-checkout: add 'clean' command

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2025, 16:46 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <2503c79c-68f3-4ed5-bbfd-3a7af07a89cc@gmail.com>

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

> A curious user may want to know "why are these directories still
> around?" and the more verbose output would assist.

Understood. That one is what I was primarily after, as opposed to "These directories will be gone, as there is nothing interesting or worth saving", which I find much less interesting (and perhaps should only be shown with --verbose, as opposed to "this will be kept even though it is out of cone, as it contains these things that may worth saving", which I think is something the user would care more).

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>> I wonder if we need "-x" and/or "-X" options "clean" has (and
>> perhaps "-d" that is a no-op, as the whole point of this subcommand
>> is about removing directories from the working tree) to control its
>> operation a bit finer-grained way.
> I'm of two minds here.

Same here, and that is why I said "I wonder" ;-)