Thin wrapper around git, which could be extended to monkeypatch other small parts of git itself where it's not feasible to impose these changes on other devs working on the same repos.

jbateson-git

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
# Disgusting wrapper around git, which prevents `git clean -fdX` from removing
# any .vscode folder that exists in the repo (by moving it to a different path
# and back again). I don't want to check the
# .vscode folder into git, but I also don't want it to be removed. Apart from that,
# git clean -fdX works well as a `make clean` target!
if [ "$1" = "clean" ]; then
    if [ -d ".vscode" ]; then
        DATA_DIR=${XDG_DATA_HOME-$HOME/.local/share}
        TARGET="$DATA_DIR/.___vscode__backup___"
        mkdir -p "$TARGET"
        mv ".vscode" "$TARGET"
        function move_back {
            mv "$TARGET" ".vscode"
        }
        trap move_back EXIT
    fi
fi

/usr/bin/git "$@"