Re: git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date: Aug 15, 2017, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20170815192543.GB3839@alpha.vpn.ikke.info>
In-Reply-To: <CAOCG=_p--J5PKGrQTdquMvcBNQs67MNaN3vM8Tbwn2nZNwVR+Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 08:45:20PM +0200, Kim Birkelund wrote:

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> Hi
> 
> I hope this is gonna sound as weird to you as it does to me.
> 
> The link below is a zip of a small git repository that I can reproduce
> the bug in on 2 machines.
> 
> Repo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fz4d0i5ko7s7ktr/test.zip?dl=0
> 
> It contains 2 folders: helpers and b, each of which is an empty npm
> module. b\package.json refers to the helpers module.
> 
> The following reproduces the bug:
> 
> 1) in terminal cd to the b folder
> 2) run npm install
> 3) run git reset HEAD --hard
> 4) run git clean -fdx
> 
> At this point both files in the helpers folder has been deleted and
> running git status confirms this.
> 
> Tool version:
> 
> git --version => git version 2.10.2.windows.1
> node -v => v6.11.2
> npm -v => 5.3.0
> 
> 
> I have no idea what is going. Very much hope you can explain :-)

I cannot reproduce it on linux.

git clean -fdx output:

  Removing node_modules/
  Removing package-lock.json

These are all untracked, and nothing in the helpers dir is being removed.