Git checkout/pull doesn't remove directories?

Question

I\'ve got my repo @ github. I did some work at home and pushed it to github. It involved some deleting of files and directories. Now I\'m on my work box, which had a copy of

Answer 1

As part of most operations that alter the working tree (pull, merge, checkout, etc.) git will remove any directories which are made empty by that operation (i.e. git removed the last file).

git won't remove any directories that aren't completely empty, so if you have hidden or ignored files then just because git removes the last tracked file from that directory doesn't necessarily mean that git will be able to remove that directory. git doesn't consider this to be an error condition so won't complain about it.