From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: help, bunch of extra files in "git status" output Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4A3AE5E6.6010404@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Friesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 19 03:18:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MHSkj-0005OG-DK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:18:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751762AbZFSBSk (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:18:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751464AbZFSBSj (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:18:39 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:55150 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028AbZFSBSj (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:18:39 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n5J1IchC016434 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:18:39 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n5J1Ib4u017614; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:18:38 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <4A3AE5E6.6010404@nortel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.471 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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