Re: git reset --hard not removing some files

> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:00:52 +0200
> Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> wrote:
> 
>> $ git reset --hard v1.3.3
>>
>> $ git status
>> # On branch refs/heads/test
>> #
>> # Untracked files:
>> #   (use "git add" to add to commit)
>> #
>> #       git-quiltimport
>> #       git-upload-tar
>> nothing to commit
> 
> Resetting to version 1.3.3 gets you an old version of the .gitignore
> file which doesn't ignore these two untracked files.  Reset --hard
> doesn't remove them because it only deals with tracked files.  Thus,
> they show up in your status report.