From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 19:37:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git clean --local
Message-ID: <xmqqk1kriuu8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <004101d48a65$afb0da40$0f128ec0$@nexbridge.com>

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


> 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'"?