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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify which paths git-clean will affect
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:57:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vljpauna5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090506163145.GF4452@frsk.net> (Fredrik Skolmli's message of "Wed\, 6 May 2009 18\:31\:45 +0200")

Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net> writes:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:
>
>> Indeed, yours is better.
>
> And I agree, it does looks better. Junio, would you like me to produce a
> patch v2, or would you like do the honor? (After all, you came up with the
> final suggestion)

Ok, I'll queue this one.

-- >8 -- 
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 10:48:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] git-clean doc: the command only affects paths under $(cwd)

Fredrik Skolmli and Thomas Rast noticed that it was left unstated that
"git clean" ran from a subdirectory will not affect anything outside it,
with or without path limiters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-clean.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 43b2de7..be894af 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
-This allows cleaning the working tree by removing files that are not
-under version control.
+Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
+under version control, starting from the current directory.
 
 Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the '-x'
 option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for

      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-06 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-05  9:13 [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify which paths git-clean will affect Fredrik Skolmli
2009-05-05  9:55 ` Thomas Rast
2009-05-05 10:05   ` Fredrik Skolmli
2009-05-05 11:17     ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-05-05 12:26     ` [PATCH] " Thomas Rast
2009-05-05 16:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-06 13:24         ` Thomas Rast
2009-05-06 16:31           ` Fredrik Skolmli
2009-05-06 17:57             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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