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] [-e <pattern>] [-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 If an untracked directory is managed by a different git 31 repository, it is not removed by default. Use -f option twice 32 if you really want to remove such a directory. 33 34-f:: 35--force:: 36 If the git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set 37 to false, 'git clean' will refuse to run unless given -f or -n. 38 39-n:: 40--dry-run:: 41 Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done. 42 43-q:: 44--quiet:: 45 Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are 46 successfully removed. 47 48-e <pattern>:: 49--exclude=<pattern>:: 50 In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and 51 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the 52 set of the ignore rules in effect. 53 54-x:: 55 Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per 56 directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore 57 rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked 58 files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in 59 conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine 60 working directory to test a clean build. 61 62-X:: 63 Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild 64 everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. 65 66SEE ALSO 67-------- 68linkgit:gitignore[5] 69 70GIT 71--- 72Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite