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git-clean − Remove untracked files from the working tree |
git clean [−d] [−f] [−n] [−q] [−x | −X] [−−] <path>... |
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Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory. Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the −x option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for example, be useful to remove all build products. If any optional <path>... arguments are given, only those paths are affected. |
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Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. If an untracked directory is managed by a different git repository, it is not removed by default. Use −f option twice if you really want to remove such a directory. |
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−f, −−force |
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If the git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set to false, git clean will refuse to run unless given −f or −n. |
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−n, −−dry−run |
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Don’t actually remove anything, just show what would be done. |
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−q, −−quiet |
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Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are successfully removed. |
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−x |
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Don’t use the ignore rules. This allows removing all untracked files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in conjunction with git reset) to create a pristine working directory to test a clean build. |
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−X |
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Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. |
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Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org [1] > |
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Part of the git(1) suite |
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proski@gnu.org |
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mailto:proski@gnu.org |