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Support repos argument for pre-commit clean #2338
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Sometimes I have a hook env that's not working properly anymore for some reason and I don't want to clean the whole pre-commit cache. In that case, it would be handy to only clean cache for certain repos, e.g along these lines:
pre-commit clean --repos https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hookspre-commit clean has no such documented option and I searched old issues. Would you consider this a valuable addition?
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[-]Support `repos` argument for `$ pre-commit clean`[/-][+]Support `repos` argument for `pre-commit clean`[/+]asottile commentedon Apr 12, 2022
I'm hesitant to add this option
originally I didn't even want to implement
pre-commit cleansince it usually is hiding a bug somewhere else (and it trains users to run the wrong and slow things whenever something goes wrong -- "oh justmake clean && make" etc.)I'm not really sure I want to add more features to it since that would encourage its use, thoughts?
lorenzwalthert commentedon May 18, 2022
I was also wondering about that trade-off. However, it's a reality that there are bugs in every piece of software and people need to find a way to work around them until they get solved. So I think if we properly document that people should file issues if they run into problems and use that as a strategy of last resort, I am not afraid that it will be abused. If it will, it's the responsibiliy of the user I think.
asottile commentedon Dec 27, 2022
closing since I'm not planning to implement this