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Recusive Directory Junctions causes git clean -fd to return a warning #3358

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Description

  • I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

  • Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.32.0.windows.2
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 3d45ac813c4adf97fe3733c1f763ab6617d5add5
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
  • Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1110]
  • What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
    defaults?
# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Editor Option: VIM
Custom Editor Path:
Default Branch Option:
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Core
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Enabled
Enable Pseudo Console Support: Disabled
Enable FSMonitor: Disabled
  • Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
    to the issue you're seeing?

Not that I'm aware of

Details

  • Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

Bash and CMD

@echo off
REM using cmd.exe/as a .bat script:

cd /D %TEMP%
mkdir recursive-delete
cd recursive-delete
git init
mkdir a
cd a
mkdir b
cd b
mklink /D /J a ..
cd %TEMP%/recursive-delete
git clean -fd
  • What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

Just the following output:

Removing a/
  • What actually happened instead?

A warning appeared beforehand:

warning: could not open directory 'a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/': Function not implemented
Removing a/
  • If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
    URL to that repository to help us with testing?

N/A

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