1git-clean(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15 16Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not 17under version control, starting from the current directory. 18 19Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the '-x' 20option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for 21example, be useful to remove all build products. 22 23If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, only those paths 24are affected. 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28-d:: 29 Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. 30 31-f:: 32 If the git configuration specifies clean.requireForce as true, 33 'git-clean' will refuse to run unless given -f or -n. 34 35-n:: 36--dry-run:: 37 Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done. 38 39-q:: 40--quiet:: 41 Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are 42 successfully removed. 43 44-x:: 45 Don't use the ignore rules. This allows removing all untracked 46 files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in 47 conjunction with 'git-reset') to create a pristine 48 working directory to test a clean build. 49 50-X:: 51 Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild 52 everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. 53 54 55Author 56------ 57Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> 58 59 60GIT 61--- 62Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite