From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiang Xin Subject: [PATCH v12 14/15] git-clean: add documentation for interactive git-clean Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 11:19:06 +0800 Message-ID: <40c32dd368ffcaa4e5d10c85a04d464524fa6396.1368846844.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com> References: Cc: Git List , Jiang Xin To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 18 05:21:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UdXhj-0005De-If for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 18 May 2013 05:21:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759239Ab3ERDUL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 May 2013 23:20:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:63882 "EHLO mail-pa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757363Ab3ERDUH (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 May 2013 23:20:07 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rl6so4162281pac.28 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer:in-reply-to :references:in-reply-to:references; bh=ivQYsQ21aSBcEfumKBhOWZ0rcG4WjNBEuv+1wmhDwRE=; b=jYo1gSoP41Be1g7KaRW71yoNwYnEknuHTRk1F6hmQT9Ybl/nFLXmdBmszy9hTqxTCy 0wEWShcYCmjKR53OGJVyaMywtgp0m62q1ISGmEno8ogk+Y3M9tnHYv64V9HXsO5xCBuk +VTXlZi28ALZEixHEtEV57rj8EnDO9TIG5sbSxW5gEa0NRKFQT9wx890Nx0ItM5jrRUn 03lh8fDzM0LGU6RdTFZ9PlORZfvCb3igEWovjwwDfpCpILjuIWYLaHci5vPOIRcDfV8H 2U0Q9bWuIjXhX7u2QLRA6PY6lwj3D8JnYelyzqP5VAGPSJ2/bJTd7K3MwM6oksLLHl7E Ay0w== X-Received: by 10.68.226.225 with SMTP id rv1mr48163663pbc.55.1368847206637; Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([114.248.155.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fn2sm13676683pbc.15.2013.05.17.20.20.04 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.rc2.26.g7472058 In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Add new section "Interactive mode" for documentation of interactive git-clean. Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin Helped-by: Eric Sunshine --- Documentation/git-clean.txt | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 186e34..5bf76 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ OPTIONS -i:: --interactive:: - Show what would be done and the user must confirm before actually - cleaning. + Show what would be done and clean files interactively. See + ``Interactive mode'' for details. -n:: --dry-run:: @@ -69,6 +69,67 @@ OPTIONS Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. +Interactive mode +---------------- +When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the +files and directories to be cleaned, and goes into its +interactive command loop. + +The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and +gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends +with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given +and type return, like this: + +------------ + *** Commands *** + 1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers + 4: ask each 5: quit 6: help + What now> 1 +------------ + +You also could say `c` or `clean` above as long as the choice is unique. + +The main command loop has 6 subcommands. + +clean:: + + Start cleaning files and directories, and then quit. + +filter by pattern:: + + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-seperated + patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion. + E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from + deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press + ENTER (empty) back to the main menu. + +select by numbers:: + + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Select items to delete>>" prompt. When the prompt ends with double + '>>' like this, you can make more than one selection, concatenated + with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" + to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a + range is omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to + choose 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything. + Also when you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER + (empty) back to the main menu. + +ask each:: + + This will start to clean, and you must confirm one by one in order + to delete items. Please note that this action is not as efficient + as the above two actions. + +quit:: + + This lets you quit without do cleaning. + +help:: + + Show brief usage of interactive git-clean. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitignore[5] -- 1.8.3.rc2.26.g7472058