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Re: checkout w/ removing untracked files

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 18, 2010, 19:51 UTC
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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> writes:
> For my Briegel buildsystem (git://pubgit.metux.de/projects/briegel.git/)
> I need to checkout a really tree (iow: no untracked files may be
> left in the workdir) from git. ATM I'm removing and recreating the
> whole directory first, but I hope to get rid of this step.
(1) If you have a correctly working "make reallyclean" to remove build
    artifacts, you wouldn't even need such an option.
(2) Have you tried to read up on "git clean -dfqx"?
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