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git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

Subject: git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

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4 messages between Aug 15, 2017 and Aug 17, 2017.

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Kim Birkelund· Aug 15, 2017, 18:45 UTC · lore
Hi
I hope this is gonna sound as weird to you as it does to me.

The link below is a zip of a small git repository that I can reproduce the bug in on 2 machines.

Repo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fz4d0i5ko7s7ktr/test.zip?dl=0

It contains 2 folders: helpers and b, each of which is an empty npm module. b\package.json refers to the helpers module.

The following reproduces the bug:
1) in terminal cd to the b folder
2) run npm install
3) run git reset HEAD --hard
4) run git clean -fdx

At this point both files in the helpers folder has been deleted and running git status confirms this.

Tool version:

git --version => git version 2.10.2.windows.1 node -v => v6.11.2 npm -v => 5.3.0

I have no idea what is going. Very much hope you can explain :-)
Kevin Daudt· Aug 15, 2017, 19:25 UTC · re: Kim Birkelund · lore

Re: git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 08:45:20PM +0200, Kim Birkelund wrote:
Show 30 quoted lines
> Hi
> 
> I hope this is gonna sound as weird to you as it does to me.
> 
> The link below is a zip of a small git repository that I can reproduce
> the bug in on 2 machines.
> 
> Repo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fz4d0i5ko7s7ktr/test.zip?dl=0
> 
> It contains 2 folders: helpers and b, each of which is an empty npm
> module. b\package.json refers to the helpers module.
> 
> The following reproduces the bug:
> 
> 1) in terminal cd to the b folder
> 2) run npm install
> 3) run git reset HEAD --hard
> 4) run git clean -fdx
> 
> At this point both files in the helpers folder has been deleted and
> running git status confirms this.
> 
> Tool version:
> 
> git --version => git version 2.10.2.windows.1
> node -v => v6.11.2
> npm -v => 5.3.0
> 
> 
> I have no idea what is going. Very much hope you can explain :-)
I cannot reproduce it on linux.
git clean -fdx output:
  Removing node_modules/
  Removing package-lock.json

These are all untracked, and nothing in the helpers dir is being removed.

Kim Birkelund· Aug 16, 2017, 06:47 UTC · re: Kevin Daudt · lore

Re: git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

Apologies. I should obviously have mentioned which OSes the machines I tested on ran.

One Windows 10 (fully updated) and one Windows Server 2016 (also updated). I've also seen it in a real repository on our build server which is Windows Server 2012 R2.

After my first mail I updated git to latest and could still reproduce.
On Aug 15, 2017 21:25, "Kevin Daudt" <me@ikke.info> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 08:45:20PM +0200, Kim Birkelund wrote:
Show 30 quoted lines
> Hi
>
> I hope this is gonna sound as weird to you as it does to me.
>
> The link below is a zip of a small git repository that I can reproduce
> the bug in on 2 machines.
>
> Repo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fz4d0i5ko7s7ktr/test.zip?dl=0
>
> It contains 2 folders: helpers and b, each of which is an empty npm
> module. b\package.json refers to the helpers module.
>
> The following reproduces the bug:
>
> 1) in terminal cd to the b folder
> 2) run npm install
> 3) run git reset HEAD --hard
> 4) run git clean -fdx
>
> At this point both files in the helpers folder has been deleted and
> running git status confirms this.
>
> Tool version:
>
> git --version => git version 2.10.2.windows.1
> node -v => v6.11.2
> npm -v => 5.3.0
>
>
> I have no idea what is going. Very much hope you can explain :-)
I cannot reproduce it on linux.
git clean -fdx output:
  Removing node_modules/
  Removing package-lock.json

These are all untracked, and nothing in the helpers dir is being removed.

Andrew Ardill· Aug 17, 2017, 00:12 UTC · re: Kim Birkelund · lore

Re: git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

Hi Kim,

I have cc'd the git for windows mailing list, but doing a quick search on the bug tracker shows this issue which looks related: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/607

Hope that helps, seems like it may be an issue with how junctions on windows are handled by git.

Regards,
Andrew Ardill
On 16 August 2017 at 16:47, Kim Birkelund <kim@birkelund.me> wrote:
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> Apologies. I should obviously have mentioned which OSes the machines I
> tested on ran.
>
> One Windows 10 (fully updated) and one Windows Server 2016 (also
> updated). I've also seen it in a real repository on our build server
> which is Windows Server 2012 R2.
>
> After my first mail I updated git to latest and could still reproduce.
>
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2017 21:25, "Kevin Daudt" <me@ikke.info> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 08:45:20PM +0200, Kim Birkelund wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I hope this is gonna sound as weird to you as it does to me.
>>
>> The link below is a zip of a small git repository that I can reproduce
>> the bug in on 2 machines.
>>
>> Repo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fz4d0i5ko7s7ktr/test.zip?dl=0
>>
>> It contains 2 folders: helpers and b, each of which is an empty npm
>> module. b\package.json refers to the helpers module.
>>
>> The following reproduces the bug:
>>
>> 1) in terminal cd to the b folder
>> 2) run npm install
>> 3) run git reset HEAD --hard
>> 4) run git clean -fdx
>>
>> At this point both files in the helpers folder has been deleted and
>> running git status confirms this.
>>
>> Tool version:
>>
>> git --version => git version 2.10.2.windows.1
>> node -v => v6.11.2
>> npm -v => 5.3.0
>>
>>
>> I have no idea what is going. Very much hope you can explain :-)
>
> I cannot reproduce it on linux.
>
> git clean -fdx output:
>
>   Removing node_modules/
>   Removing package-lock.json
>
> These are all untracked, and nothing in the helpers dir is being
> removed.

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