GIT-CLEAN(1)                                                      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
       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&#8217;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>
              Specify special exceptions to not be cleaned. Each <pattern> is
              the same form as in $GIT_DIR/info/excludes and this option can
              be given multiple times.


       -x     Don&#8217;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.


GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite




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