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From: Devste Devste <devstemail@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git clean deletes negated pathspec if directory causing data loss
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2025 13:27:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANM0SV0R7OYJKeBAs5-WY2Wqp7VxhKv5=LQ4cuDd6MaQwNqGNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I am using:
git version 2.51.0.windows.1

Run:
echo .idea/dictionaries >> .gitignore
mkdir -p .idea/dictionaries
touch .idea/dictionaries/foo.xml
git clean -f -f -d -X --dry-run -- ':!/.idea/dictionaries' ':*.rej' ':/*/*.log'

Outputs:
Would remove .idea/dictionaries/

No matter how you specify the pathspec (':!.idea',...) it always wants
to delete the .idea/dictionaries directory, even though it does not
contain any .rej or .log files and is explicitly set to excluded


             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-05 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-05 11:27 Devste Devste [this message]
2025-10-05 11:33 ` git clean deletes negated pathspec if directory causing data loss Devste Devste
2025-10-29 20:00   ` Devste Devste
2025-10-30  8:49     ` Johannes Schindelin
2025-10-30 17:04       ` Junio C Hamano

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