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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2024, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwmmw1sev.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ae862adb-1475-48e9-bd50-0c07dc42a520@rawbw.com>

Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> writes:

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

Yes, and from everybody's point of view, including "git", a directory with such a file is not yet empty.

> "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.

So "was supposed to remove" above is not quite correct. Where did such a piece of misinformation come from?