@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ OPTIONS
3939
4040-i::
4141--interactive::
42- Show what would be done and the user must confirm before actually
43- cleaning .
42+ Show what would be done and clean files interactively. See
43+ ``Interactive mode'' for details .
4444
4545-n::
4646--dry-run::
@@ -69,6 +69,67 @@ OPTIONS
6969 Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild
7070 everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
7171
72+ Interactive mode
73+ ----------------
74+ When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
75+ files and directories to be cleaned, and goes into its
76+ interactive command loop.
77+
78+ The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
79+ gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
80+ with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
81+ and type return, like this:
82+
83+ ------------
84+ *** Commands ***
85+ 1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers
86+ 4: ask each 5: quit 6: help
87+ What now> 1
88+ ------------
89+
90+ You also could say `c` or `clean` above as long as the choice is unique.
91+
92+ The main command loop has 6 subcommands.
93+
94+ clean::
95+
96+ Start cleaning files and directories, and then quit.
97+
98+ filter by pattern::
99+
100+ This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an
101+ "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-seperated
102+ patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion.
103+ E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from
104+ deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press
105+ ENTER (empty) back to the main menu.
106+
107+ select by numbers::
108+
109+ This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an
110+ "Select items to delete>>" prompt. When the prompt ends with double
111+ '>>' like this, you can make more than one selection, concatenated
112+ with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9"
113+ to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a
114+ range is omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to
115+ choose 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
116+ Also when you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER
117+ (empty) back to the main menu.
118+
119+ ask each::
120+
121+ This will start to clean, and you must confirm one by one in order
122+ to delete items. Please note that this action is not as efficient
123+ as the above two actions.
124+
125+ quit::
126+
127+ This lets you quit without do cleaning.
128+
129+ help::
130+
131+ Show brief usage of interactive git-clean.
132+
72133SEE ALSO
73134--------
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