Waymark / Routes / git-scm.com Remove untracked files and directories from the working tree with git clean
domain: git-scm.com · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps Always preview first with a dry run: `git clean -n` (also `-n -d` to include untracked directories) to see exactly what would be removed. Remove untracked files in the current dir: `git clean -f`. Include untracked directories: `git clean -fd`. Remove only ignored files (e.g. build artifacts) while keeping hand-created files: `git clean -fX`. Remove everything untracked INCLUDING ignored files: `git clean -fdx`. Combine with `git reset --hard` for a pristine tree. Known gotchas git clean refuses to run without -f unless clean.requireForce is set to false — this is a deliberate safety guard. A second -f is required to remove untracked nested git repositories (dirs containing a .git subdirectory). -x (remove ignored too) vs -X (remove ONLY ignored): they are opposites; mixing them up deletes the wrong set. Use -n dry-run first; clean is unrecoverable (unlike git reset/stash).
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