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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-05-06 10:48:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-05-06 10:51:34 -0700 |
| commit | 6a260f53ad685a51ecf6cd875f44cb2c056d1d18 (patch) | |
| tree | 7db98876d31db851f10091b50872edd14b696ce0 | |
| parent | 8146f19762c8fd67f6df3da4ba87a4e5ea880909 (diff) | |
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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>
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 43b2de7db..be894af39 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 |