Can I clear the status of the colored bars in Visual Studio 2013?

Question

I know the bars on that show up on the left reflect the change status of my code (green is saved changes, yellow means changes were made and not saved, etc.) but is there a way to clear these bars out without closing and reopening Visual Studio?
I think they are helpful markers, but they begin to help less and less as I make more changes throughout a large file (or multiple files)

Answer 1

Closing and reopening the file (not the whole IDE) will reset the change tracking.