Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· klj613

remove untracked files

#git

If you want to remove all your untracked files...

git clean -f

If sometimes you have untracked files you want to keep (e.g. error logs from a build) then you should add them to .gitignore.

#git

Written by Kristian Lewis Jones

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