On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:16 PM Patrick Marlier <patrick.marlier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Could I suggest a bit longer commit message? Perhaps: """ clean: avoid traversing into untracked dirs when unnecessary When deleting all untracked and ignored files and any nested repositories (such as with `git clean -ffdx`), we do not need to recurse into an untracked directory to see if any of the entries under it are ignored or a nested repository. Special case this condition to avoid unnecessary recursion. """ > --- > builtin/clean.c | 4 +++- > t/t7300-clean.sh | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c > index 18b37e3fd9..1b1454d052 100644 > --- a/builtin/clean.c > +++ b/builtin/clean.c > @@ -978,7 +978,9 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > remove_directories = 1; > } > > - if (remove_directories && !ignored_only) { > + if (remove_directories && ignored && !exclude_list.nr && force > 1) > + ; /* No need to recurse to look for ignored files */ > + else if (remove_directories && !ignored_only) { > /* > * We need to know about ignored files too: > * > diff --git a/t/t7300-clean.sh b/t/t7300-clean.sh > index 0399701e62..684eba914b 100755 > --- a/t/t7300-clean.sh > +++ b/t/t7300-clean.sh > @@ -788,4 +788,28 @@ test_expect_success 'traverse into directories that may have ignored entries' ' > ) > ' > > +test_expect_success 'avoid traversing into untracked directories' ' > + test_when_finished rm -f output error trace.* && > + test_create_repo avoid-traversing-untracked-hierarchy && I think you may have been copying from an example earlier in the file that I like wrote. As someone else recently pointed out to me, t/test-lib-functions.sh points out that test_create_repo is deprecated and we should just use "git init <dirname>" instead. > + ( > + cd avoid-traversing-untracked-hierarchy && > + > + mkdir -p untracked/subdir/with/b && > + mkdir -p untracked/subdir/with/a && > + >untracked/subdir/with/a/random-file.txt && > + > + GIT_TRACE2_PERF="$TRASH_DIRECTORY/trace.output" \ > + git clean -ffdx > + ) && > + > + # Make sure we only visited into the top-level directory, and did > + # not traverse into the "untracked" subdirectory since it was excluded > + grep data.*read_directo.*directories-visited trace.output | > + cut -d "|" -f 9 >trace.relevant && > + cat >trace.expect <<-EOF && > + ..directories-visited:1 > + EOF > + test_cmp trace.expect trace.relevant > +' > + > test_done > -- > 2.35.1 Looks good, other than those minor items. Thanks for working on this!