diff --git a/tests/pkg/ver_clash/clean.sh b/tests/pkg/ver_clash/clean.sh
index b734e1d511..c9a924faa4 100755
--- a/tests/pkg/ver_clash/clean.sh
+++ b/tests/pkg/ver_clash/clean.sh
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
 rm -rf work
+
+# previous clean.sh, without it we would be copying old .git dirs and get a test failure
+rm -rf DiamondExample-*/.git
+rm -rf DiamondExample-*/.lake DiamondExample-*/lake-manifest.json
+rm -f DiamondExample-D/produced.out