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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-03-13 22:56:12 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-03-13 22:56:12 -0700
commit4b23b5d1afbc7fcd8bc744523f4c3ff06dbe25d1 (patch)
treede1b32781f7d0781f5999188d3fb07f989fd1345 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'ak/t5516-typofix' into maint (diff)
parentDocumentation/git-clean.txt: document that -f may need to be given twice (diff)
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Merge branch 'mr/doc-clean-f-f' into maint
Documentation update. * mr/doc-clean-f-f: Documentation/git-clean.txt: document that -f may need to be given twice
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@@ -34,8 +34,12 @@ OPTIONS
-f::
--force::
If the Git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set
- to false, 'git clean' will refuse to run unless given -f, -n or
- -i.
+ to false, 'git clean' will refuse to delete files or directories
+ unless given -f, -n or -i. Git will refuse to delete directories
+ with .git sub directory or file unless a second -f
+ is given. This affects also git submodules where the storage area
+ of the removed submodule under .git/modules/ is not removed until
+ -f is given twice.
-i::
--interactive::