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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
