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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 23, 2019, 15:28 UTC
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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?

Most likely this is because the exclude came much much later, and either we forgot to teach the implementation of clean to pay attention to it or (much more likely) the implementaiton is fine but we did not update the doc, which was trying to overly be exhaustive, doing no good (if the original just stopped at saying "... the standard ignore rules read from the usual places", we won't be having this discussion).

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