Re: [BUG] "git clean -df ." silently doesn't delete folders with stale .nfs* files

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''Yuri' <yuri@rawbw.com>

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Jun 13, 2024, 09:21 UTC

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On 6/13/24 01:09, Gabor Gombas wrote:

> $ git clean -df [there is no output - bingo] $ git clean -dfx warning: 
> failed to remove xx/.nfs[... long hex number...]: Device or resource busy

'git -dfx' does warn about the .nfsNNN files.

It turns out that my git repository has .nfs* files in the ignore list.

So it silently keeps these files with the -df flags.

Yuri