Adam Milazzo <Adam.Milazzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Also, another way to look at this; currently 'git clean -fd' >> behaves the same on untracked directories as 'rm -rf' does and I >> think that's a good model for how to behave. Why should they be >> different? > > I would ask "why should they be the same?" Simply because that is how users would expect how the world works (iow, model things after what they are already familiar with).