Re: what should "git clean -n -f [-d] [-x] <pattern>" do?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what should "git clean -n -f [-d] [-x] <pattern>" do?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:20:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240129182006.GC3765717@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzns7a8a.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:35:49PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:

> >> I'm still arguing in favor of fixing "-n", and I believe a fix is needed
> >> independently from decision about "-f -f".
> >
> > Even though I do not personally like it, I do not think "which
> > between do-it (f) and do-not-do-it (n) do you want to use?" is
> > broken.  It sometimes irritates me to find "git clean" (without "-f"
> > or "-n", and with clean.requireForce not disabled) complain, and I
> > personally think "git clean" when clean.requireForce is in effect
> > and no "-n" or "-f" were given should pretend as if "-n" were given.
> 
> As a note, I'd consider to get rid of 'clean.requireForce' anyway, as
> its default value provides safe reasonably behaving environment, and I
> fail to see why anybody would need to set it to 'false'.

Please don't. I set it to "false", because I find the default behavior a
pointless roadblock if you are already aware that "git clean" can be
destructive. Surely I can't be the only one.

-Peff