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

From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2024, 18:36 UTC
Message-ID: <ae862adb-1475-48e9-bd50-0c07dc42a520@rawbw.com>

NFS sometimes leaves files like .nfsXXXXXXXXXXX which usually means that some process that has this file open is alive.

"git clean -df ." was supposed to remove the folder where such file is located, but it encountered the failure, and silently ignored it and succeeded.

Desired behavior: "git clean -df ." should notify the user with warnings or errors for each such file that it failed to remove.

When "git clean -df ." succeeded I ran the next command and it failed because of the still-present folder with the .nfsXXXXXXXXX file in it.

I believe that this is a bug in git.

git-2.38.1

Thanks,

Yuri

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