Re: git clean -fdx deletes tracked files

[Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>]

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:
> 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.