Remove .gitignore'd files
Here is how to remove files and directories that are ignored by git (cf. .gitignore). May be useful following a test run, a build, etc.
$ git clean -dfXOptions:
-
-d: Remove directories in addition to files. -
-f: Force removal. Will refuse to remove anything if not provided. -
-X: Remove only files that are present in .gitignore.
See git-clean(1).
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Note that this will remove the files from the file system, not from git tracked repository.
If you want to remove files from the git repository which are .gitignore'd (technically: to unstage and remove paths only from the index) you can run this command:
git rm --cached `git ls-files -i --exclude-from=.gitignore`And tun this command to see first which files will be removed from repository:
git ls-files -i --exclude-from=.gitignore
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