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Ahmed Salman
Ahmed Salman

Reputation: 11

git status find untracked files ../.merge_file_vbohis auto generated and i don't know how to git rid of

when i run the command:

git status

I find untracked files ../.merge_file_vbohis auto generated and I don't know how to git rid of and why are they here?!

untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

../.merge_file_1fRTco
../.merge_file_497EAv
../.merge_file_6Wrwsj
../.merge_file_FTsrcP

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (2)

Matt Messersmith
Matt Messersmith

Reputation: 13757

It's impossible to say why they're there, but you can get rid of them with git clean -xdf. However, this will nuke all of your untracked files, so make sure you aren't deleting anything you haven't added to git but want to.

You can do a dry run (to see what will be deleted) with git clean -xdf --dry-run. I'd recommend doing the dry run first, and then removing the flag if you're comfortable with what will be deleted.

Upvotes: 0

Marcin Pietraszek
Marcin Pietraszek

Reputation: 3214

I'm not sure by what tool those files were generated but you could easily ignore them with .gitignore file. It could contain a glob pattern that will exclude those files:

$ echo ".merge_file_*" >> ../.gitignore
$ git add ../.gitignore
$ git status # this one should show new .gitignore file, without those merge files mentioned above

Upvotes: 1

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