Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Maybe we can do like this: > > 1. Set the default value of 'clean.requireForce' to false. > 2. Show a error message and do nothing, if there is not 'clean.requireForce' > setting, but the user called with a '--force' flag. > ( like a transition for the change of push.default in git 2.0) Perhaps introducing a new value for 'clean.requireForce': $ git config --global clean.requireForce ask $ git clean will remove ... are you sure [y/N]? The error message when clean.requireForce is unset and --force is not given could point the user to clean.requireForce=ask. Then, maybe, later, this could become the default. But I tend to like the non-interactive nature of most Git commands, so I'm a bit reluctant here. My way of doing the confirmation dialog is $ git clean -n would remove ... $ git clean -f -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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