I had a peculiar situation today where I cloned a repository into a directory which was inside another repository. Here’s what I was doing:
$ git clone git://gitserver/repo1.git repo1 $ cd repo1 $ git clone git://gitserver/repo2.git repo2 $ git clean -fxd Removing repo2/ $ ls -d repo2 repo2 |
The second repository existed even after a git clean -fxd. I stumbled upon a GitHub page within the capistrano project that explained the problem — an extra -f was required:
$ git clean -ffxd Removing repo2/ $ ls -d repo2 ls: cannot access repo2: No such file or directory |