From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what should "git clean -n -f [-d] [-x] <pattern>" do?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:34:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsf2nnbkj.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5ow9jb4.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (Sergey Organov's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:10:55 +0300")
Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
> Then how does one figure what "git clean -f -f" will do without actually
> doing it?
I think whoever came up with the bright idea of forcing twice
somehow does a totally different thing from forcing once should be
shot, twice ;-) It does not mesh well with the idea behind the
clean.requireForce setting to make you explicitly choose either '-f'
or '-n' to express your intent.
I wonder how feasible is it to deprecate that misfeature introduced
with a0f4afbe (clean: require double -f options to nuke nested git
repository and work tree, 2009-06-30) and migrate its users (which
is marked as "This is rarely what the user wants") to a new option,
say, --nested-repo-too so that the "dry-run" version of the
invocations become
git clean -n
git clean -n --nested-repo-too
and you can substitute "-n" with "-f" to actually perform it?
Anybody care to come up with a sensible migration plan?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-23 18:34 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 [this message]
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
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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