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

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Jun 11, 2024, 01:22 UTC
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On 6/10/24 18:19, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
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> That is what I suspected. I am suspecting that git does not see the 
> .nfsNNNN file when it is performing the clean. I think NFS creates the 
> file after git does the scan, so as far as git is concerned, there is 
> no .nfsNNNN file until after the operation completes. NFS puts the 
> file there independent of git, so git does not even know about it. 
> Does a second git clean -df . remove the .nfsNNNN file and put a new 
> one, with a different name, in place?
No, *only* the .nfsXXXX file exists in the xx directory when git runs.
Yuri
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