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-rw-r--r--builtin/clean.c33
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c
index 1be437bd5a..5a9c29a558 100644
--- a/builtin/clean.c
+++ b/builtin/clean.c
@@ -955,8 +955,37 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
remove_directories = 1;
}
- if (remove_directories && !ignored_only)
- dir.flags |= DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO | DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS;
+ if (remove_directories && !ignored_only) {
+ /*
+ * We need to know about ignored files too:
+ *
+ * If (ignored), then we will delete ignored files as well.
+ *
+ * If (!ignored), then even though we not are doing
+ * anything with ignored files, we need to know about them
+ * so that we can avoid deleting a directory of untracked
+ * files that also contains an ignored file within it.
+ *
+ * For the (!ignored) case, since we only need to avoid
+ * deleting ignored files, we can set
+ * DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO_MODE_MATCHING in order to avoid
+ * recursing into a directory which is itself ignored.
+ */
+ dir.flags |= DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO;
+ if (!ignored)
+ dir.flags |= DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO_MODE_MATCHING;
+
+ /*
+ * Let the fill_directory() machinery know that we aren't
+ * just recursing to collect the ignored files; we want all
+ * the untracked ones so that we can delete them. (Note:
+ * we could also set DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS when
+ * ignored_only is true, since DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS
+ * only has effect in combination with DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO. It makes
+ * the code clearer to exclude it, though.
+ */
+ dir.flags |= DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS;
+ }
if (read_cache() < 0)
die(_("index file corrupt"));