Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add clean.requireForce option, and add -f option to git-clean to override it

From: Michael Spang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:24:29 -0400

Josh Triplett wrote:
> +if [ "$disabled" = true ]; then
> +	echo "clean.requireForce set and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean"
> +	exit 1
> +fi

How is it useful to abort completely? Wouldn't it be better to behave like -n unless -f is given?

Cheers,
Michael Spang