6 git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
11 'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
16 Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
17 under version control, starting from the current directory.
19 Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the '-x'
20 option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for
21 example, be useful to remove all build products.
23 If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, only those paths
29 Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files.
30 If an untracked directory is managed by a different Git
31 repository, it is not removed by default. Use -f option twice
32 if you really want to remove such a directory.
36 If the Git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set
37 to false, 'git clean' will refuse to run unless given -f, -n or
42 Show what would be done and the user must confirm before actually
47 Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done.
51 Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are
56 In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and
57 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the
58 set of the ignore rules in effect.
61 Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per
62 directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore
63 rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked
64 files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
65 conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine
66 working directory to test a clean build.
69 Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild
70 everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
78 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite