From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] "git clean -df ." silently doesn't delete folders with stale .nfs* files
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:58:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwmmw1sev.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae862adb-1475-48e9-bd50-0c07dc42a520@rawbw.com> (yuri@rawbw.com's message of "Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:36:28 -0700")
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-10 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-10 18:36 [BUG] "git clean -df ." silently doesn't delete folders with stale .nfs* files Yuri
2024-06-10 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-06-10 20:08 ` Yuri
2024-06-10 21:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-06-10 23:27 ` Yuri
2024-06-10 23:55 ` rsbecker
2024-06-11 0:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-06-11 1:09 ` 'Yuri'
2024-06-11 1:19 ` rsbecker
2024-06-11 1:22 ` 'Yuri'
2024-06-11 1:46 ` Chris Torek
2024-06-11 6:48 ` Jeff King
2024-06-11 7:43 ` 'Yuri'
2024-06-13 8:09 ` Gabor Gombas
2024-06-13 9:21 ` 'Yuri'
2024-06-11 13:48 ` rsbecker
2024-06-11 17:46 ` 'Yuri'
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=xmqqwmmw1sev.fsf@gitster.g \
--to=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=yuri@rawbw.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.