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From: Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add test for git clean -e.
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:35:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100720233554.GA2141@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmxtllwoi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 01:34:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is a good start but it doesn't seem to test possible interactions
> with entries in .gitignore file(s) in the working tree.  Do we care?

Honestly, I'm not sure that we do care.

> 
> What should happen when a path "path":
> 
>  (1) is marked to be ignored in .gitignore and -e "path" is also given;

It is excluded.

>  (2) is marked not to be ignored (i.e. "!path") in .gitignore but -e
>     "path" is given;

I think it would be good for "!path" to cause -e path to have no
effect because of globbing issues.

Currently, -e works as normal.

>  (3) is marked to be ignored in .gitignore but -e "!path" is given;

Again, I'm not sure and am definately open to debate here. Personally,
I think that -e "!path" is completely abusing the use of -e, because
it is using -e to NOT exclude something.

Currently, -e has no effect.

>  (4) is marked not to be ignored in .gitignore and -e "!path" is also
>      given;

No effect happens. Again, this is abuse of -e in my opinion, as its
goal to allow one to do a clean and save one or two files.

>  (5) perhaps other combinations like "!path" in a/.gitignore, and -e "a/path"
>      from the command line.

Judging by (2), -e will work as normal.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20 19:35 [PATCH 0/2] Add -e/--exclude to git-clean Jared Hance
2010-07-20 19:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Jared Hance
2010-07-20 20:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-20 19:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add test for git clean -e Jared Hance
2010-07-20 20:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-20 23:35     ` Jared Hance [this message]
2010-07-20 19:43 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add -e/--exclude to git-clean Jared Hance
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-19 18:39 [PATCH v3] Add --exclude " Jared Hance
2010-07-20 16:28 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 0/2] Add -e/--exclude to git clean Jared Hance
2010-07-20 16:30   ` [PATCH 2/2] Add test for git clean -e Jared Hance

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