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Git Cleaning

See which files will be deleted.

git clean -n

To delete the untracked files for good.

git clean -f

Some other handy commands to remove untracked things

  • To remove directories, run git clean -fd
  • To remove ignored files, run git clean -fX
  • To remove ignored and non-ignored files, run git clean -fx
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