From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:26:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: BUG: git clean -d cannot remove files from read-only directories
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In-Reply-To: <BL0PR2101MB1089E3CE7738BB70B65C17B680130@BL0PR2101MB1089.namprd21.prod.outlook.com>

Adam Milazzo <Adam.Milazzo@microsoft.com> writes:

>> Also, another way to look at this; currently 'git clean -fd'
>> behaves the same on untracked directories as 'rm -rf' does and I
>> think that's a good model for how to behave.  Why should they be
>> different?
>
> I would ask "why should they be the same?"

Simply because that is how users would expect how the world works
(iow, model things after what they are already familiar with).