From: 'Yuri' <yuri@rawbw.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 01:22:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] "git clean -df ." silently doesn't delete folders with stale .nfs* files
Message-ID: <b8f8fa08-e4a0-4755-99f0-9311b05945dd@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <0eef01dabb9d$70c99690$525cc3b0$@nexbridge.com>

On 6/10/24 18:19, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
> 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