| GIT-CLEAN(1) | Git Manual | GIT-CLEAN(1) |
NAME¶
git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
SYNOPSIS¶
git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
OPTIONS¶
-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.
-x
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.
-X
Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to
rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
AUTHOR¶
Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org[1]>
GIT¶
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES¶
- 1.
- proski@gnu.org
mailto:proski@gnu.org
| 02/03/2020 | Git 1.7.1 |