From: 'Yuri' <yuri@rawbw.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:21:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] "git clean -df ." silently doesn't delete folders with stale .nfs* files
Message-ID: <7fb83cd9-5a15-41d8-b047-c69e9026e4b2@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZmqpQ4FkfXRm2jAE@lan>

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