From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:51:23 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout w/ removing untracked files
Message-ID: <7v39ubaedg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100818193154.GA13204@nibiru.local>

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"?