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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu•org>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail•com>
Cc: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-clean command
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:32:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144164749.30675.12.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0604040217s3b8863d3w1b79400c42ca2b90@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 11:17 +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 4/4/06, Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde•org> wrote:
> > What is the use case of cleaning up all untracked files without also
> > cleaning ignored files?
> 
> Thinks of git's .gitignore: it has config.mak in it. Are you sure you want
> "clean" your build customizations?

In may case, I normally want to remove copies of the sources.  For
example, I take foo.c, make a clean copy of it, then I change and test
it.  If if doesn't work and I want to try another approach, I copy it to
foo.c-bad or foo.c-approach1.  I also make diffs between files to see
what exactly I changed.  I may also create files for output, valgrind
logs and so on.

At some point, I'm satisfied with foo.c, so I commit it.  Then I want to
remove copies, diffs and other stuff.  Yet I don't want to rebuild
everything.

It's very rare that I add a new file, and I always remember to add it to
the version control.  But I'll consider adding an option to only remove
ignored files.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-04 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03 22:18 [PATCH] Add git-clean command Pavel Roskin
2006-04-04  0:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04 10:58   ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-04 15:52     ` Pavel Roskin
2006-04-05 16:02       ` unchecked uses of strdup Jim Meyering
2006-04-06 14:11         ` Alex Riesen
2006-04-05  6:00   ` [PATCH] Add git-clean command Pavel Roskin
2006-04-04  8:20 ` Martin Waitz
2006-04-04  9:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04  9:17   ` Alex Riesen
2006-04-04 15:32     ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-05  6:00 Pavel Roskin
2006-04-05  6:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-03 21:59 Pavel Roskin

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