Re: [RFC] git clean --local

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2018, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk1kriuu8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <004101d48a65$afb0da40$0f128ec0$@nexbridge.com>

"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

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> Would something like git clean --exclude=file-pattern work as a
> compromise notion? Files matching the pattern would not be cleaned
> regardless of .gitignore or their potential preciousness status
> long-term. Multiple repetitions of the --exclude option might be
> supportable. I could see that being somewhat useful in scripting.

I think "git clean" already takes "-e", but I am not sure if it is meant to do what you wrote above.

If "git clean" takes a pathspec, perhaps you can give a negative pathspec to exclude whatever you do not want to get cleaned, something like

	git clean '*.o' ':!precious.o'

to say "presious.o is ignored (hence normally expendable), but I do not want to clean it with this invocation of 'git clean'"?