On 04/16/2012 10:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I suspect that older days "git clean" was a scripted Porcelain around a > plumbing (perhaps ls-files?---I didn't bother digging its history as I do > not care too deeply about "git clean" which I do not use myself). Do you just use ls-files directly? > If we > have piled so many features into "git clean" after the rewrite-to-C to > make it impossible to express what "git clean" _would_ do in terms of > "ls-files", perhaps that is what needs to be fixed, so that we can express > "git clean --some-set-of-options" as: > > git ls-files -z --set-of-options-equivalent-to-what-is-given-to-clean | > xargs -0 rm -fr > I agree that a --null option to git-clean is unnecessary if git-ls-files is used. It seems like they can be made pretty much equivalent except that git-ls-files doesn't seem to have a way of listing "only files" or "only directories"? -- Ross Lagerwall -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html