Git: How to delete all untracked files?

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Mar 15, 202696533 views

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I'm using Git for version control. Now I want to delete on my local machine all files in the repository that are not tracked. I can use to list these files, but how can I delete all of them?

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If you have it in ignore, use . You can do but that will also remove un-tracked directories. Use for a dry-run. See cleaning up un-tracked

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