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user1934428

Reputation: 22217

How can I git clean manually created files

Is it possible (without doing a git clone again) to bring by repo to a "clean" state, in that also files, which are manually created, are removed?

I have a directory which is gitignored:

# .gitignore
mydir/

The directory mydir has been manually created and contains files. When I do a

git clean -X -f .

in the base directory of my repo, mydir is not removed. This seems to be in concordance with the documentation, as we can see here.

My question is now: What would be the best way of cleaning my repo? I could rm -rf my repo and then run git clone, but maybe there is a "better" way to do it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 57

Answers (1)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 43314

You are looking for the -d flag

-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.

and the -x flag

-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 clean build.

When you do a $ git clean -xdf using -x and -d together it will also remove untracked/ignored directories

Also see http://git-scm.com/docs/git-clean

Upvotes: 5

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