On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote: > Gurjeet Singh wrote: >> >> I did a `git clean -f -d` and even that did not remove gram.c, apparently >> because this file _was_ alive at some point in the past hence git won't >> remove it even though the current branch does not have gram.c. > > At first glance that looks like a git bug.
My guess is that either .git/info/exclude or a .gitignore file someplace says to ignore gram.c. git clean -df will not remove such files; you need git clean -dfx if you want that.