Git Does a Lot of Things
Wed 27 July 2016
I should make a tool that extends git to delete all of the files matched by the .gitginore. I spend way too much time crafting find <...> | xargs rm commands. I know, I'll call it git clean.
Well... before I get too far I'll just make sure it doesn't already exist.
$ man git clean
GIT-CLEAN(1) Git Manual GIT-CLEAN(1)
NAME
git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
SYNOPSIS
git clean [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--]
<path>...
DESCRIPTION
Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
under version control, starting from the current directory.
...
Huh... well I... that's pretty much exactly how I would have done it...
git tab tab
add filter-branch relink
am format-patch remote
annotate fsck repack
apply gc replace
archive get-tar-commit-id request-pull
bisect grep reset
blame help revert
branch imap-send review
bundle init rm
checkout instaweb send-email
cherry interpret-trailers shortlog
cherry-pick log show
clean merge show-branch
clone mergetool stage
column mv stash
commit name-rev status
config notes submodule
credential p4 svn
describe pull tag
diff push verify-commit
difftool rebase whatchanged
fetch reflog worktree
Ah, okay. I get it now. Git does do a lot of things.
Note
The above output is from git 2.8.2.