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Debian 7.3.0(Wheezy) |
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git-clean(1) |
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git-clean − Remove untracked files from the working tree
git clean [−d] [−f] [−n] [−q] [−e <pattern>] [−x | −X] [−−] <path>...
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.
−d
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.
−f, −−force
If the git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set to false, git clean will refuse to run unless given −f or −n.
−n, −−dry−run
Don’t actually remove anything, just show what would be done.
−q, −−quiet
Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are successfully removed.
−e <pattern>, −−exclude=<pattern>
In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the set of the ignore rules in effect.
−x
Don’t use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore rules given with −e options. 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.
−X
Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
Part of the git(1) suite
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