Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured
clean-mode"):
> How about the "opt to disregard"?
I considered that and my conclusions are set out in the commit message
for the patch I have just emailed to the bug (and which I meant to
email the bug earlier).
Ian Jackson writes ("[[DRAFT PATCH]] dgit: clean: Do check the tree even when
building in playtree"):
> I think I have concluded that with -wg and -wgf the right way to turn
> these new failures into successes is to have a way to have the clean
> actually done. If that is not wanted, one can say -wn instead.
>
> This is particularly true given that ignoring the problem can produce
> confusing failure, as seen in #914317.
Note that prior to always-build-in-playtree, dgit would always
actually delete the files in this situation.
> So there will be a new --clean=git[-ff],always shortly.
It would be possible to introduce --clean=git-ff,no-check but I think
it would be a bit weird and adding more cases here doesn't help much.
Ian.
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