git/Documentation/git-clean.txt
Junio C Hamano a0f4afbe87 clean: require double -f options to nuke nested git repository and work tree
When you have an embedded git work tree in your work tree (be it
an orphaned submodule, or an independent checkout of an unrelated
project), "git clean -d -f" blindly descended into it and removed
everything.  This is rarely what the user wants.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-29 12:22:30 -07:00

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git-clean(1)
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NAME
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git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
DESCRIPTION
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Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
under version control, starting from the current directory.
Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the '-x'
option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for
example, be useful to remove all build products.
If any optional `<path>...` arguments are given, only those paths
are affected.
OPTIONS
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-d::
Remove 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::
If the git configuration specifies clean.requireForce as true,
'git-clean' will refuse to run unless given -f or -n.
-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.
-x::
Don't use the ignore rules. 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.
Author
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Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite