Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > A curious user may want to know "why are these directories still > around?" and the more verbose output would assist. Understood. That one is what I was primarily after, as opposed to "These directories will be gone, as there is nothing interesting or worth saving", which I find much less interesting (and perhaps should only be shown with --verbose, as opposed to "this will be kept even though it is out of cone, as it contains these things that may worth saving", which I think is something the user would care more). >> I wonder if we need "-x" and/or "-X" options "clean" has (and >> perhaps "-d" that is a no-op, as the whole point of this subcommand >> is about removing directories from the working tree) to control its >> operation a bit finer-grained way. > I'm of two minds here. Same here, and that is why I said "I wonder" ;-)