From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Adam Milazzo <Adam.Milazzo@microsoft.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: BUG: git clean -d cannot remove files from read-only directories
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:26:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo8ts99pp.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BL0PR2101MB1089E3CE7738BB70B65C17B680130@BL0PR2101MB1089.namprd21.prod.outlook.com> (Adam Milazzo's message of "Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:05:48 +0000")
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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-20 18:55 BUG: git clean -d cannot remove files from read-only directories Adam Milazzo
2020-02-20 19:45 ` Elijah Newren
2020-02-20 20:05 ` [EXTERNAL] " Adam Milazzo
2020-02-20 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-02-20 23:52 ` Adam Milazzo
2020-02-21 0:42 ` Elijah Newren
2020-02-20 23:13 ` Elijah Newren
2020-02-21 1:48 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-02-21 0:52 Adam Milazzo
2020-02-21 1:08 ` Elijah Newren
2020-02-21 3:06 ` [EXTERNAL] " Adam Milazzo
2020-02-21 5:38 ` Jeff King
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