On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 07:06:59PM +0000, Brennan Conroy wrote:
> Hello, I work on a project that uses git. "git clean -xdf" is a common
> command to run to clean up the environment, however sometimes this
> command deletes the entire contents of two of the folders and all the
> files it deletes are being tracked which according to the
> documentation should not be deleted.
> 
> The project is located at https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR and the two folders it likes to delete are https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR/tree/release/2.2/clients/ts/signalr-protocol-msgpack and https://github.com/aspnet/SignalR/tree/release/2.2/clients/ts/signalr
> 
> If you need me to collect git logs etc. please don't hesitate to ask!

It would be helpful to know more about your environment.  Is this only
reproducible on certain operating systems (e.g. case-insensitive ones)?
What version of Git are you using?  What does "git status" say before
you run git clean?
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