On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:27:55PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Geert Bosch <bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I often type "make clean" as well many "git xyz" commands > > during development, and so it happens that at times, I type > > "git clean" by accident. > > Happened to me once. I hate that command. > > > So, I propose *not* converting git clean to a C builtin, > > but instead adding --untracked and --ignored options to > > git-rm. > > I think what you are trying to do is to deprecate or remove "git > clean". > > I do not know where "git clean" came from. I am suspecting that > it was to give counterparts to some other SCMs, but do not know > which ones. Some people wanted to have it --- so you need to > convince them that it is a bad idea first. Adding an equivalent > options to "git rm" alone does not solve that issue. FWIW I do use git clean a _lot_. I don't mind if it's doable from another kind of command, but I do use git clean and even git clean -x a lot, because it achives cleansing my repository faster (and sometimes faster) than a `make distclean` would do. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx OOO http://www.madism.org
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