Vim create more junk files and cannot be removed by rm -rf on gitbash on windows 10

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Just upgrade gitbash to last version. Then tried to create file using vim editor on gitbash. File could be created but it created several files along with,

test.txt
test_txt.swp
.test.txt.swp
.test.txt.swx

And when I tried to remove using

rm -rf test.txt

message error: rm: cannot remove test.txt: invalid request code

Yes, I did and even tried to close git-bash and reopened and tried again. Same thing still happened. — , Oct 05 '19 at 05:11
I downgraded to previous version. Everything works back as normal. That's odd! — , Oct 11 '19 at 05:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '19 at 05:49

Invalid request code seems to be EBADRQC 56

To be sure this is not a PATH issue, where a Cygwin installation might interfer with the mingw bash for Git for Windows, try the same command in a simplified PATH and a portable Git (like PortableGit-2.23.0-64-bit.7z.exe), uncompressed anywhere you want.

set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
set GH=C:\path\to\git
set PATH=%GH%\bin;%GH%\usr\bin;%GH%\cmd;%GH%\mingw64\bin;%PATH%

Then try the rm command in a regular Windows CMD shell session (not git bash at first).

Try and use (for testing) rm -i, to get confirmation. -f is a bit dangerous, -rf even more so.

Vim create more junk files and cannot be removed by rm -rf on gitbash on windows 10

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