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Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:46:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Derrick Stolee Cc: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, newren@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sparse-checkout: add 'clean' command In-Reply-To: <2503c79c-68f3-4ed5-bbfd-3a7af07a89cc@gmail.com> (Derrick Stolee's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2025 10:39:29 -0400") References: <49418e8ec8a4c3e0ce9c65aa700042b6f3f3f4d7.1751973594.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> <2503c79c-68f3-4ed5-bbfd-3a7af07a89cc@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:46:58 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Derrick Stolee writes: > A curious user may want to know "why are these directories still > around?" and the more verbose output would assist. Understood. That one is what I was primarily after, as opposed to "These directories will be gone, as there is nothing interesting or worth saving", which I find much less interesting (and perhaps should only be shown with --verbose, as opposed to "this will be kept even though it is out of cone, as it contains these things that may worth saving", which I think is something the user would care more). >> I wonder if we need "-x" and/or "-X" options "clean" has (and >> perhaps "-d" that is a no-op, as the whole point of this subcommand >> is about removing directories from the working tree) to control its >> operation a bit finer-grained way. > I'm of two minds here. Same here, and that is why I said "I wonder" ;-)