From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:18:37 GMT
Subject: Re: help, bunch of extra files in "git status" output
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906181817360.16802@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <4A3AE5E6.6010404@nortel.com>



On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> Now when I do "git status" it shows about 600 filenames in the
> "Untracked files" section.  How do I return my tree to a clean state?
> Can I just delete all these files?

Yes. You can do "git clean -dqfx" and it will delete any files that aren't 
listed in the index.

		Linus