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What exactly are untracked files in a repository?
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Untracked files are files that have been created within your repo's working directory but have not yet been added to the repository's tracking index using the git add command.
Untracked basically means that Git sees a file you didn't have in the previous snapshot (commit), and which hasn't yet been staged; Git won't start including it in your commit snapshots until you explicitly tell it to do so.
Run 'git clean -f' to force untracked file deletion; Use 'git clean -f -d' to remove untracked directories; Use 'git clean -f -x' to remove untracked .
Files in a repo folder that have not been added to the index.
So for instance, if I do:
git diff HEAD^ > some-new-file.diff
Then some-new-file.diff is probably untracked, since I've never done a git add on it before.
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