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"git reset --hard" not cleaning up working copy?

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
May 7, 2007, 07:51 UTC
Message-ID
<200705070951.39677.johan@herland.net>
Hi,

When I "git reset --hard HEAD" to purge all my non-committed changes, it seems that files I created after the last commit (but not part of the index) are left lying around my working copy. Is this intended?

Have fun!
...Johan
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