Sorry to add noise to this thread but since the github issue was closed I wanted to make sure I'm not missing any updates here. Would any updates come through on this thread? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2021 1:52 AM To: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Gore <Jason.Gore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Git clean enumerates ignored directories (since 2.27) On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:56:14PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > ---- > #!/bin/sh > > git init test-repo > cd test-repo > longname="directory" > touch "$longname.txt" > last=400 > for x in $(seq 1 $last); do > mkdir "x$longname$x" > mv directory* "x$longname$x" > mv "x$longname$x" "$longname$x" > done > git clean -ffdxn -e directory$last > ---- > > When it fails, it will complain that it wasn't able to open the > directory. It still exits zero, however. > > I haven't bisected this, so I don't know if those patches are related > to the problem or not. I'm a little short on time today to > investigate further, but hopefully this can get someone on the right > path with a modified version and git bisect run if nothing else. It bisects to 8d92fb2927 (dir: replace exponential algorithm with a linear one, 2020-04-01). I won't pretend to understand everything going on in that commit, though. -Peff
