Deletion of directory '...' failed. Should I try again? (y/n)

[Forge36]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version:

  1.86.2
  903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda
  x64

• OS Version:

  Edition Windows 10 Enterprise
  Version 22H2
  OS build    19045.3930
  Experience  Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Configure VS Code as git's editor git config --global core.editor = 'code --wait --reuse-window --disable-extensions'
2. start an interactive rebase git rebase HEAD~2 -i
3. Delete all text in the rebase file
4. Save
5. Close visual studio

See error: Deletion of directory '...' failed. Should I try again? (y/n)

I'm also using windows terminal with git-bash and this entirely breaks the terminal forcing me to close the tab.

There does appear to be a race condition as leaving visual studio open for a longer period of time does not exhibit the error (i.e. it's inconsistent).

[roscoekerby]

You might have a subdirectory in the directory you are trying to delete.

[HughWarrington]

I get the same symptoms, but I am using Notepad++ as my editor. i.e. I will do a rebase, and at the end I get Deletion of directory '.git/rebase-merge' failed. Should I try again? (y/n). Sometimes it's that git-internal path, other times it can't delete a directory which was removed as part of the rebase. In other words, this might not be a vscode bug. I never saw this error in years of using git, until recently when I also started using Windows Terminal for the first time. Perhaps that's related.

[Forge36]

I am using Windows Terminal as well.