Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Spang <mspang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Is this even properly solvable without making clean a builtin or >> writing git-unescape? > > If you know how to use "xargs -0" and are willing to depend on > the -0 GNU extension, then the answer is yes. Right. But I do not think xargs can call a shell function. git-clean does not just call git-rm directly. I guess git-clean could call itself through xargs, but that might become confusing. > I do not use git-clean myself, as I do not see what (I think) it > tries to solve as a problem to begin with, so obviously I do not > care too deeply about the command's implementation --- I just > let it be there because there seem to be others who want it --- > but if I were asked an advice on the right direction to proceed, > I would probably suggest rewriting it in C. That seems like the cleanest solution to me as well. Cheers, Michael Spang - 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