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
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2009-06-19 1:12 help, bunch of extra files in "git status" output Chris Friesen
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