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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify which paths git-clean will affect
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:24:47 +0200
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Cc: Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net>, git@vger.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>=20
> > -If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, only those paths
> > -are affected.
> > +If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, those paths are
> > +affected.  Otherwise, the cleaning starts at the current directory.
>=20
> With or without path limiters, clean does not look outside the current
> directory; I think the "otherwise" makes things worse than the original.
>=20
> I'd suggest not touching this paragraph at all, but instead say something
> like this at the beginning:
>=20
> > -This allows cleaning the working tree by removing files that are not
>=20
>     Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
>     under version control, starting from the current directory.

Indeed, yours is better.

=2D-=20
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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