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 delete files or directories
38 unless given -f, -n or -i. Git will refuse to delete directories
39 with .git sub directory or file unless a second -f
44 Show what would be done and clean files interactively. See
45 ``Interactive mode'' for details.
49 Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done.
53 Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are
58 Use the given exclude pattern in addition to the standard ignore rules
59 (see linkgit:gitignore[5]).
62 Don't use the standard ignore rules (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), but
63 still use the ignore rules given with `-e` options from the command
64 line. This allows removing all untracked
65 files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
66 conjunction with 'git restore' or 'git reset') to create a pristine
67 working directory to test a clean build.
70 Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild
71 everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
75 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
76 files and directories to be cleaned, and goes into its
77 interactive command loop.
79 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
80 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
81 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
82 and type return, like this:
86 1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers
87 4: ask each 5: quit 6: help
91 You also could say `c` or `clean` above as long as the choice is unique.
93 The main command loop has 6 subcommands.
97 Start cleaning files and directories, and then quit.
101 This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an
102 "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-separated
103 patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion.
104 E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from
105 deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press
106 ENTER (empty) back to the main menu.
110 This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an
111 "Select items to delete>>" prompt. When the prompt ends with double
112 '>>' like this, you can make more than one selection, concatenated
113 with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9"
114 to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a
115 range is omitted, all remaining items are selected. E.g. "7-" to
116 choose 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
117 Also when you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER
118 (empty) back to the main menu.
122 This will start to clean, and you must confirm one by one in order
123 to delete items. Please note that this action is not as efficient
124 as the above two actions.
128 This lets you quit without do cleaning.
132 Show brief usage of interactive git-clean.
140 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite