Hello All, Thanks for the responses! I was not aware of the alias option, but it gave me the following idea that seems to work: git config --global alias.rmclean '!git rm -r -f $1; git clean -f $1' A dir with a untracked file 'file1' will give: git rmclean file1 fatal: pathspec 'file1' did not match any files Removing file1 but effectively the file is gone. A dir with a tracked file 'file2' will give: git rmclean file2 rm 'file2' alternatively, ignore the errors: git config --global alias.rmclean '!git rm -r -f $1 2>/dev/null; git clean -f $1 2>/dev/null' some setup as above, untracked file1, tracked file2 in one go: git rmclean . gives: rm 'file2' Removing file1 So I think I solved my own question :-) Kind regards, Erik. > Op 27 mei 2020 om 16:29 schreef "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On May 27, 2020 8:45 AM, Ðoàn Tr?n Công Danh wrote: > > To: Erik Janssen <eaw.janssen@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [Feature request] Add -u option to git rm to delete untracked > > files > > > > On 2020-05-26 23:21:23+0200, Erik Janssen <eaw.janssen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Would it be feasible to add a -u option to git rm to specify that I > > > also want a file deleted if it is not tracked by git? > > > Currently, git rm -f can remove files in whatever state it seems, > > > except when it is untracked. > > > By allowing a -u option (-u: also delete untracked files) I would be > > > sure that the file is gone while it would also make sure that it > > > doesn't break past behaviour where people perhaps rely on git rm to > > > leave untracked files alone. > > > > I _think_ remove untracked file is pretty much risky operation, and it should > > be done separately/independently (via git-clean(1)). > > A git alias could easily be set up to do this, of course dangerous because of what git-clean does without any arguments: > > git config --global alias.rmu 'clean -f --' > > > Let's assume we have -u|--untracked, > > nothing (probably) can stop our users from: > > > > git rm -u src > > git rm -u . > > > > Even git-clean(1) requires either --force or --interactive because it's too > > much risky to begin with. > > > > If we think Git as a FileSystem, its rm should only care about its tracked file. I > > prefer to just rm(1) instead of "git-rm -u". >
