Git Version Control Cookbook

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If we need to remove the ignored files, we can of course use git clean to do this; instead of the dry-run option, we pass the force option, -f:

$ git clean -Xfd
Removing bin/foobar
Removing test.test
Removing test.txt.bak

To remove all the untracked files and not just the ignored files, use git clean -xfd. The lowercase x means we don't use the ignore rules, we just remove everything that is not tracked by Git.