From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what should "git clean -n -f [-d] [-x] <pattern>" do?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:31:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5ot6tos.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ede56tva.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (Sergey Organov's message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:27:53 +0300")
Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Now we are going to introduce "dry run" option "-n". Most simple and
>>> obvious way to do it is to set internal flag "dry_run" and then at every
>>> invocation of "remove(file_name)" put an if(dry_run) that will just
>>> print(file_name) instead or removing it. Let's suppose we did just that.
>>> We get this behavior:
>>>
>>> $ git clean -n
>>> fatal: clean.requireForce defaults to true and neither -i nor -f given; refusing to clean
>>> $ git clean -f -n
>>> would remove "a"
>>> would remove "b"
>>> $ git clean -f -f -n
>>> would remove "a"
>>> would remove "b"
>>> would remove "sub/a"
>>> $
>>>
>>> I see this as logical, clean, and straightforward behavior, meeting user
>>> expectations for "dry run" option, so I suggest to do just that.
>>
>> I think we are saying the same thing. If the original semantics
>> were "you must force with -f to do anything useful", instead of "you
>> must choose either forcing with -f or not doing with -n", then it
>> would have led to the above behaviour.
>>
>> The thing is, it is way too late to change it that way without
>> breaking too many folks, and that is the problem.
>
> If we agree on the behavior above for sane "dry run", yet you worry
> about backward compatibility so much to deny changing the behavior of
> "-n", then a way to go could be to introduce, say, "-d" for sane "dry
> run", and obsolete "-n" while keeping it alone.
Except exactly "-d" is already taken, but you get the idea.
-- Sergey Organov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-25 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-09 20:20 what should "git clean -n -f [-d] [-x] <pattern>" do? Junio C Hamano
2024-01-09 22:04 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-19 2:07 ` Elijah Newren
2024-01-23 15:10 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-23 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-24 8:23 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-24 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-25 17:11 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-25 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-25 20:27 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-25 20:31 ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2024-01-26 7:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-26 12:09 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-27 10:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-27 13:25 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-29 19:40 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-01-31 13:04 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-29 9:35 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-29 18:20 ` Jeff King
2024-01-29 21:49 ` Sergey Organov
2024-01-30 5:44 ` Jeff King
2024-01-30 5:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-29 19:07 ` [PATCH] clean: improve -n and -f implementation and documentation Sergey Organov
2024-03-01 13:20 ` Jean-Noël Avila
2024-03-01 14:34 ` Sergey Organov
2024-03-01 15:29 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-03-01 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-02 19:47 ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2024-03-02 20:09 ` Sergey Organov
2024-03-02 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-02 23:48 ` Sergey Organov
2024-03-03 9:54 ` Sergey Organov
2024-03-01 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-01 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-01 19:31 ` Sergey Organov
2024-03-02 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-02 19:59 ` Sergey Organov
2024-03-03 9:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Sergey Organov
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