remove untracked files in git

Remove untracked files from the working tree

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Step 1 is to show what will be deleted by using the -n option:

git clean -f -n

Clean Step - beware: this will delete files:

git clean -f

• To remove directories, run git clean -f -d or git clean -fd
• To remove ignored files, run git clean -f -X or git clean -fX
• To remove ignored and non-ignored files, run git clean -f -x or git clean -fx

Note the case difference on the X for the two latter commands.

If clean.requireForce is set to "true" (the default) in your configuration, one needs to specify -fotherwise nothing will actually happen.

Again see the git-clean docs for more information.

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61212/how-to-remove-local-untracked-files-from-the-current-git-branch