From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Bosch Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:17:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071022063222.GS14735@spearce.org> <7vzly84qwf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmytycykt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <916BE4AD-5BD9-48E6-8026-B1AC7387E28D@adacore.com> <7v4pg5btis.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v912) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 01 22:17:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InhQ3-0005kX-AO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:17:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753906AbXKAVRW (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:17:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753948AbXKAVRW (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:17:22 -0400 Received: from rock.gnat.com ([205.232.38.15]:34344 "EHLO rock.gnat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753608AbXKAVRV (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:17:21 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6036C2AB391; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:17:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id p3NJji2eJ1Od; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:17:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from potomac.gnat.com (potomac.gnat.com [205.232.38.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED1F2AB204; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:17:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <7v4pg5btis.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.912) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Nov 1, 2007, at 16:27, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Geert Bosch 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". Yes, and in the meantime I'd like to discourage people from spending time and effort to upgrade it to first class built-in status. -Geert