[MERGE REVIEW] Clean-tree

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Mon Jun 19 08:31:23 BST 2006


On  7 Jun 2006, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> I don't think so.  This is a list of junk that bzr may leave behind, and
> bzr knows that best.  If you want to build up a list of files you want
> to delete, 'find' can do that for you.  Unlike Arch, we don't want to
> have multiple classes of ignored files, which is a direction this
> suggestion would lead us in.
> 
> I talked with Martin, and we decided not to put clean-tree in, but I'm
> adding a --detritus option to 'bzr ls', so people can use it with xargs.

Given other recent discussions of remove/rm, perhaps this should
actually be "bzr rm --detritus", rather than adding a new verb?  After
all, rm is what it actually does.

-- 
Martin




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