Try this in your favorite git repo: git clean -n / Here, it responds with: fatal: oops in prep_exclude I don't know what the expected behavior should be, but certainly not this. Maybe just do nothing like 'git ls-files /'. I'm not familiar with either builtin-clean.c nor dir.c; perhaps someone else can fix this? -- Hannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html