Documentation/git-clean.txt

   1 git-clean(1)
   2 ============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
   7
   8 SYNOPSIS
   9 --------
  10 [verse]
  11 'git-clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <paths>...
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Removes files unknown to git.  This allows to clean the working tree
  16 from files that are not under version control.  If the '-x' option is
  17 specified, ignored files are also removed, allowing to remove all
  18 build products.
  19 When optional `<paths>...` arguments are given, the paths
  20 affected are further limited to those that match them.
  21
  22
  23 OPTIONS
  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
  50 Author
  51 ------
  52 Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
  53
  54
  55 GIT
  56 ---
  57 Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite