GIT-CLEAN(1)                                               Git Manual                                               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'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'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.

AUTHOR
       Written by Pavel Roskin <proskiATgnu.org[1]>

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. proskiATgnu.org
           mailto:proskiATgnu.org



Git 1.7.4.4                                                04/11/2011                                               GIT-CLEAN(1)