Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> The main reason I took that out in my patch was because I think the second
> sentence more says the same thing, except more clearly, and the exact
> semantics of "files unknown to git" versus "ignored files", etc seem to not have
> good definitions anyway, so I left that for the second paragraph that talks
> about how '-x' changes things.
If you want to keep it, maybe change it to be more active. Something like:
Cleans the working tree by removing files that are not under version
control.
> So I might edit yours to say:
>
> Specifying the '-x' option will also remove ignored files. This is useful to
> remove, for example, generated files that are normally ignored.
The "for example" just comes sticking out again. Could you put it at the
beginning of the sentence?
> I left the part about '-x' there mostly because it was already in there, so I
> figured someone at some point thought it was special enough. I didn't want to
> undo any good decisions that had already been made. =) That said, both -x and
> -X are somewhat special because they change the behavior a LOT compared to,
> say, -d.
So maybe -X should be described as well?
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