Yuri <yuri@xxxxxxxxx> 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?