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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..160d08b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +git-clean(1) +============ + +NAME +---- +git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] [<pathspec>...] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not +under version control, starting from the current directory. + +Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the `-x` +option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for +example, be useful to remove all build products. + +If any optional `<pathspec>...` arguments are given, only those paths +that match the pathspec are affected. + +OPTIONS +------- +-d:: + Normally, when no <pathspec> is specified, git clean will not + recurse into untracked directories to avoid removing too much. + Specify -d to have it recurse into such directories as well. + If a <pathspec> is specified, -d is irrelevant; all untracked + files matching the specified paths (with exceptions for nested + git directories mentioned under `--force`) will be removed. + +-f:: +--force:: + If the Git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set + to false, 'git clean' will refuse to delete files or directories + unless given -f or -i. Git will refuse to modify untracked + nested git repositories (directories with a .git subdirectory) + unless a second -f is given. + +-i:: +--interactive:: + Show what would be done and clean files interactively. See + ``Interactive mode'' for details. + +-n:: +--dry-run:: + Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done. + +-q:: +--quiet:: + Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are + successfully removed. + +-e <pattern>:: +--exclude=<pattern>:: + Use the given exclude pattern in addition to the standard ignore rules + (see linkgit:gitignore[5]). + +-x:: + Don't use the standard ignore rules (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), but + still use the ignore rules given with `-e` options from the command + line. This allows removing all untracked + files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in + conjunction with 'git restore' or 'git reset') to create a pristine + working directory to test a clean build. + +-X:: + Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild + everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. + +Interactive mode +---------------- +When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the +files and directories to be cleaned, and goes into its +interactive command loop. + +The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and +gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends +with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given +and type return, like this: + +------------ + *** Commands *** + 1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers + 4: ask each 5: quit 6: help + What now> 1 +------------ + +You also could say `c` or `clean` above as long as the choice is unique. + +The main command loop has 6 subcommands. + +clean:: + + Start cleaning files and directories, and then quit. + +filter by pattern:: + + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-separated + patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion. + E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from + deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press + ENTER (empty) back to the main menu. + +select by numbers:: + + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Select items to delete>>" prompt. When the prompt ends with double + '>>' like this, you can make more than one selection, concatenated + with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" + to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a + range is omitted, all remaining items are selected. E.g. "7-" to + choose 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything. + Also when you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER + (empty) back to the main menu. + +ask each:: + + This will start to clean, and you must confirm one by one in order + to delete items. Please note that this action is not as efficient + as the above two actions. + +quit:: + + This lets you quit without do cleaning. + +help:: + + Show brief usage of interactive git-clean. + +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[] + +include::config/clean.txt[] + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:gitignore[5] + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |