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

From: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:05:41 -0700

Josh Triplett wrote:
> Michael Spang wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I don't think so, for a couple of reasons.
[...]

That said, a *separate* config option to make git-clean assume -n by default
seems potentially useful as well.

- Josh Triplett