Hi, On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:04:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Zoltan Klinger <zoltan.klinger@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Would like to get some more feedback on the proposed output in case of > > (1) an untracked subdirectory with multiple files where at least one of them > > cannot be removed. > > (2) reporting ignored untracked git subdirectories > > > > Suppose we have a repo like the one below: > > test.git/ > > |-- tracked_file > > |-- untracked_file > > |-- untracked_foo/ > > | |-- bar/ > > | | |-- bar.txt > > | |-- emptydir/ > > | |-- frotz.git/ > > | | |-- frotx.txt > > | |-- quux/ > > | |-- failedquux.txt > > | |-- quux.txt > > |-- untracked_unreadable_dir/ > > | |-- afile > > |-- untracked_some.git/ > > |-- some.txt > > > > $ git clean -fd > > Removing untracked_file > > Removing untracked_foo/bar > > Removing untracked_foo/emptydir > > Removing untracked_foo/quux/quux.txt > > warning: failed to remove untracked_foo/quux/failedquux.txt > > warning: failed to remove remove untracked_unreadable_dir/ > > "remove remove" is a typo, I presume. > > > warning: ignoring untracked git repository untracked_foo/frotz.git/ > > warning: ignoring untracked git repository untracked_some.git/ > > If you mean "we report the topmost directory and nothing about > (recursive) contents in it if everything is removed successfully" > (in other words, if we had subdirectories and files inside > untracked_foo/bar/ and we successfully removed all of them, the > above output does not change), it seems quite reasonable. > > > Use git clean --force --force to delete all untracked git repositories > > But I am not sure if this is ever sane. Especially the one that > removes an embedded repository is suspicious. "git clean" should > not ever touch it with or without --superforce or any other command. As I mentioned in my email where I reported this incorrect git clean output, I have a use case where I want git clean to remove embedded repositories. Whether it is a sane one is probably a different discussion. Soren -- 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