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'
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