How do you remove untracked files from your git working copy?

Question

How do you remove untracked files from your git working copy?

Answer 1

"git-clean" is what you are looking for. It is used to remove untracked files from the working tree:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clean.html

Answer 2

git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clean.html

Answer 3

git clean -f

If you just want to remove ignored files, run git clean -f -X.
If you want to remove ignored as well as non-ignored files, run git clean -f -x.
Note the case difference on the X for the two latter commands.

Unless you specify -f and clean.requireForce is set to "true" (the default) in your configuration, nothing will actually happen, with a recent enough version of git.

Note that as of git-1.6.0, the dashed style of writing git commands (ie, git-clean instead of git clean) is obsoleted.

Answer 4

git clean -f -d to be sure that also dirs are gone! you can check with git status if they are really gone