Add -e/--exclude to git-clean.

With the -e/--exclude option for git-clean, a user can specify files
that they haven't yet told git about, but either need for a short amount
of time or plan to tell git about them later. This allows one to still
use git-clean while these files are around without losing data.

Signed-off-by: Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jared Hance
2010-07-20 15:35:56 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c5212b87da
commit 07de4eba60
2 changed files with 23 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
DESCRIPTION
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@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ OPTIONS
Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are
successfully removed.
-e <pattern>::
--exclude=<pattern>::
Specify special exceptions to not be cleaned. Each <pattern> is
the same form as in $GIT_DIR/info/excludes and this option can be
given multiple times.
-x::
Don't use the ignore rules. This allows removing all untracked
files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in