From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>
To: Simon Cheng <cyqsimon@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feat. req.: add a flag to `git clean` to also remove ignored nested repositories
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 13:18:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aWEAHQLzwTxCpD5Q@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+itcS3-RQ=ESqcWj0Pkw=N4e4gwaz2fp2xH2M1MPXQXaMDmCw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2026-01-09 at 03:50:30, Simon Cheng wrote:
> Currently, running `git clean -dxf` on a repository that includes
> another repository under an ignored path would skip said repository:
>
> $ git clean -dxf
> Removing foo
> Skipping repository ignored-path/repo
> Removing bar
>
> This is to request the addition of a new flag to allow altering this
> behaviour, i.e. to make `git clean` remove those repositories too.
>
> For me, this feature is relevant for building `*-git` packages from
> the AUR, for example https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/paru-git. By
> default `makepkg` would clone the source repo into `./src/NAME`, which
> creates the aforementioned condition. Without such an option on `git
> clean`, cleanup after build is rather complicated.
Does this work if you use `git clean -dxff` (that is, with a second `-f`
flag)? I do often clean up ignored repositories that way (and it's
documented to do that in the manual page), but I'm not sure if you're
maybe doing something a little different from my workflow.
If that _doesn't_ work for you, would you mind creating a quick shell
script to demonstrate the problem that you're seeing so that we could
provide better advice?
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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA
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2026-01-09 3:50 Feat. req.: add a flag to `git clean` to also remove ignored nested repositories Simon Cheng
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2026-01-16 5:16 ` Simon Cheng
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