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GIT-CLEAN(1) | Git Manual | GIT-CLEAN(1) |
NAME¶
git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working treeSYNOPSIS¶
git clean [-d] [-f] [-i] [-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.OPTIONS¶
-dRemove 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, -n or -i.
-i, --interactive
Show what would be done and clean files
interactively. See “Interactive mode” for details.
-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>
In addition to those found in .gitignore (per
directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in
the set of the ignore rules in effect.
-x
Don’t use the standard ignore rules read
from .gitignore (per directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use
the ignore rules given with -e options. 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.
INTERACTIVE MODE¶
When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the files and directories to be cleaned, and goes into its interactive command loop.*** Commands *** 1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers 4: ask each 5: quit 6: help What now> 1
Start cleaning files and directories, and then
quit.
filter by pattern
This shows the files and directories to be
deleted and issues an "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You
can input space-seperated patterns to exclude files and directories from
deletion. E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c"
and ".h" from deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered
result, press ENTER (empty) back to the main menu.
select by numbers
This shows the files and directories to be
deleted and issues an "Select items to delete>>" prompt. When
the prompt ends with double >> like this, you can make more than
one selection, concatenated with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges.
E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second
number in a range is omitted, all remaining items are selected. E.g.
"7-" to choose 7,8,9 from the list. You can say * to choose
everything. Also when you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER
(empty) back to the main menu.
ask each
This will start to clean, and you must confirm
one by one in order to delete items. Please note that this action is not as
efficient as the above two actions.
quit
This lets you quit without do cleaning.
help
Show brief usage of interactive
git-clean.
SEE ALSO¶
gitignore(5)GIT¶
Part of the git(1) suite04/08/2014 | Git 1.9.1 |