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