I am trying to clean my working tree, however, when I enter git clean --force
nothing happens.
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
packages/Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.2.0.30506.0/
packages/Microsoft.Data.Edm.5.2.0/
packages/Microsoft.Data.OData.5.2.0/
packages/Microsoft.Net.Http.2.0.20710.0/
packages/Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.1.0.0.0/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
$ git clean --force
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
packages/Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.2.0.30506.0/
packages/Microsoft.Data.Edm.5.2.0/
packages/Microsoft.Data.OData.5.2.0/
packages/Microsoft.Net.Http.2.0.20710.0/
packages/Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.1.0.0.0/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
Likewise, git clean -i
has no effects either.
Because the clean operation permanently deletes files, Git wants you to first run the command with the -n option to force a dry run. Remember that 'git clean' only removes untracked files. To find out if a file is tracked or not, developers can issue the 'git status' command from within the repository.
Summary. To recap, git clean is a convenience method for deleting untracked files in a repo's working directory. Untracked files are those that are in the repo's directory but have not yet been added to the repo's index with git add .
git clean deletes ignored files only if you use either the -x or -X option, otherwise it just deletes untracked files.
These are all directories, in order to remove directories you need to use the command :
git clean -f -d
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