Re: [PATCH] git-clean: remove fifo, devices, socket files

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:33:42PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 15.07.2016 um 09:46 schrieb Andrey Vagin:
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > IOW: These special files are invisible for Git unless it already knows the
> > > names. The latter case is outside 'git clean's domain, and the former case
> > > really means that special files in the working tree are left at the user's
> > > discretion.
> > 
> > I understand your points, but I don't see any reasons to ignore these files.
> > 
> > What will be wrong if 'git status' will reports these files?
> > What will be wrong if 'git add' will returns an error instead of
> > skipping them silently?
> 
> I can buy that 'git add' reports an error for special files. (And I concur
> with Dscho that the behavior should otherwise remain unchanged.) But this is
> not what the commit message sells even if the patch changes the behavior of
> 'git add', too (I haven't tested the patch).

Ok. Thank you for the feedback.

> 
> -- Hannes
> 
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