# [PATCH] clean: only lstat files in pathspec

1 messages from 2015-05-18 to 2015-05-18. Participants: David Turner.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/39359

## David Turner, 2015-05-18 18:08

Subject: [PATCH] clean: only lstat files in pathspec
Message-ID: <1431972526-26382-1-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1431972526-26382-1-git-send-email-dturner%40twopensource.com

```
Git clean takes a list of paths to clean.  Make sure that it only
lstats files which match that list of paths.  Previously, if another
process was deleting files outside of the specified paths, clean might
have failed when attempting to lstat those files.  Now, it will not
lstat them, and thus will not fail.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
---
 builtin/clean.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c
index 98c103f..ada0196 100644
--- a/builtin/clean.c
+++ b/builtin/clean.c
@@ -941,15 +941,15 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		if (!cache_name_is_other(ent->name, ent->len))
 			continue;
 
-		if (lstat(ent->name, &st))
-			die_errno("Cannot lstat '%s'", ent->name);
-
 		if (pathspec.nr)
 			matches = dir_path_match(ent, &pathspec, 0, NULL);
 
 		if (pathspec.nr && !matches)
 			continue;
 
+		if (lstat(ent->name, &st))
+			die_errno("Cannot lstat '%s'", ent->name);
+
 		if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) && !remove_directories &&
 		    matches != MATCHED_EXACTLY)
 			continue;
-- 
2.0.4.315.gad8727a-twtrsrc

```
