Showing and cleaning ignored files
Ignoring files is useful to filter noise from the output of git status
. But, sometimes it is required to check which files are ignored. This example will show you how to do that.
Getting ready
We'll continue in the repository from the last example.
How to do it...
To show the files we have ignored, we can use the clean
command. Normally, the clean
command will remove the untracked files from the working directory but it is possible to run this in a dry-run mode, -n
, where it just shows what will happen.
$ git clean -Xnd Would remove bin/foobar Would remove test.test Would remove test.txt.bak
The options used in the preceding command specify the following:
-n
,--dry-run
: Only lists that will be removed-X
: Removes only ...
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