git-clean (1)

Name

git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree

Synopsis

git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...

Description

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NAME
     git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree

SYNOPSIS
     git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-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.

     -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



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         clean build.

     -X
         Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to
         rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually
         created files.

GIT
     Part of the git(1) suite



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Availability   | developer/versioning/git |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted              |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from  http://git-
     core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
























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