From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean: confirm before cleaning files and directories
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:53:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5c565ca.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANYiYbFzEoEgJzKsB_hiKNy2JCxaTDX30wXNjnzComOzJJF_cw@mail.gmail.com> (Jiang Xin's message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:41:19 +0800")
Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:
> I don't know how many programmers had been bitten by runing `git clean -fdx`,
> but I bet there were some. I think safety should be put to the 1st place.
> It is because "clean.requireForce" defaults to true, all people trend to run
> 'git clean' with the '--force/-f' option.
But if that's the real problem, wouldn't it be better to introduce
something like clean.requireForce=interactive (or 'ask', or whatever you
make up) which will be like clean.requireForce=true except that when on
a TTY, we ask the user?
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-26 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-26 8:07 [PATCH] clean: confirm before cleaning files and directories Jiang Xin
2013-04-26 8:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-04-26 8:41 ` Jiang Xin
2013-04-26 8:51 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-04-26 10:00 ` Jiang Xin
2013-04-26 8:53 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-04-26 16:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-26 16:19 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-04-26 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-26 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-27 2:09 ` Jiang Xin
2013-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH v2] Add support for -i/--interactive to git-clean Jiang Xin
2013-04-27 21:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-04-27 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-28 2:03 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-04-29 8:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-04-29 14:30 ` [PATCH] clean: Introduce -z for machine readable output Michael J Gruber
2013-04-29 14:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-04-29 16:15 ` [PATCH v2] Add support for -i/--interactive to git-clean Jiang Xin
2013-04-30 19:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Jiang Xin
2013-05-01 15:12 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-02 13:15 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] " Jiang Xin
2013-05-02 13:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] Show items of interactive git-clean in columns Jiang Xin
2013-05-02 15:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-03 1:26 ` Jiang Xin
2013-05-03 12:54 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-02 13:15 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] Add colors to interactive git-clean Jiang Xin
2013-05-02 15:07 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-03 2:53 ` Jiang Xin
2013-05-02 13:43 ` [PATCH v3] Add support for -i/--interactive to git-clean Jiang Xin
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