This patch documents the behavior of 'git clean' when encountering nested git repositories. Such repositories are only deleted if '-f' is passed twice to 'git clean'. Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-clean.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 9f42c0d..0b31454 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ example, be useful to remove all build products. If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, only those paths are affected. +Nested git repositories are not removed unless the '-f' option is +passed to 'git clean' twice. + OPTIONS ------- -d:: @@ -35,6 +38,8 @@ OPTIONS --force:: If the git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set to false, 'git clean' will refuse to run unless given -f or -n. + Pass this option twice to 'git clean' in order to also remove + nested git repositories. -n:: --dry-run:: -- 1.8.0.2 -- 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