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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: BUG: git clean -d cannot remove files from read-only directories
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Adam Milazzo <Adam.Milazzo@microsoft.com> writes:

>> Also, another way to look at this; currently 'git clean -fd'
>> behaves the same on untracked directories as 'rm -rf' does and I
>> think that's a good model for how to behave.  Why should they be
>> different?
>
> I would ask "why should they be the same?"

Simply because that is how users would expect how the world works
(iow, model things after what they are already familiar with).