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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: help, bunch of extra files in "git status" output
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:18:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906181817360.16802@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3AE5E6.6010404@nortel.com>



On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> Now when I do "git status" it shows about 600 filenames in the
> "Untracked files" section.  How do I return my tree to a clean state?
> Can I just delete all these files?

Yes. You can do "git clean -dqfx" and it will delete any files that aren't 
listed in the index.

		Linus

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-19  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-19  1:12 help, bunch of extra files in "git status" output Chris Friesen
2009-06-19  1:18 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]

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