Especially on Windows, we will need to stop that daemon, just in case that the directory needs to be removed (the daemon would otherwise hold a handle to that directory, preventing it from being deleted). Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>