Cleaning ignored files

Hi,

I want to ask about git clean -dXf command behaviour.

I do the following:

$ mkdir gitignore_test $ cd gitignore_test/ $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in ~/gitignore_test/.git/

$ echo *.sln > .gitignore
$ git add .gitignore
$ git commit -m "add gitignore"
[master (root-commit) ef78a3c] add gitignore
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

$ mkdir src $ touch test.sln $ touch src/test.sln $ tree . ├── src │ └── test.sln └── test.sln

1 directory, 2 files

$ git clean -dXf Removing test.sln

$ tree
.
└── src
    └── test.sln

1 directory, 1 file

Why git clean -dXf does not remove all my test.sln files, but just one of them?

Roman Terekhov

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Roman Terekhov <roman.terekhov@gmail.com> wrote:

src/ is not under version control, and currently git does not descend into unknown folders to remove ignored files. If you had a tracked or staged file in src/, then git would descend into src/ and remove test.sln as expected. In your example, try doing:

$ touch src/foo.c $ git add src/foo.c $ git clean -dXf Removing src/test.sln Removing test.sln

Hope that helps!

-John