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90 questions linked to/from How do I remove local (untracked) files from the current Git working tree?
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How do I clear my local working directory in Git? [duplicate]
How can I clear my working directory in Git?
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How to remove untracked files in Git? [duplicate]
I'm working on a branch, say "experimental", which I branch out from my master branch. Then, I generate a user model in the experimental branch, but don't add them to the index yet.
What do ...
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Telling git its ok to remove untracked files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you remove untracked files from your git working copy?
Is it possible to tell git to remove untracked files? Mainly something that is similar to a reset?
example:
git ...
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Git remove new untracked files [duplicate]
this should be simple but i cant find the right anwer
I am new to git I added a bunch of new files (not staged) to my git tree i want to just delete them without also deleting the git ignore files in ...
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Question Mark after file names when renaming - how to purge from Xcode? [duplicate]
So I added a bunch of images to my project that has git enabled. I then renamed all the images in Xcode. Now whenever I select commit, these files with the old file name pop up with a question mark. ...
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Git - Undoing changes [duplicate]
I'm currently trying to learn using Git within my workflow and I'd like to ask somethings how I could do them more easily.
I usually create different braches in order to do some thing and see if ...
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How to remove unversioned file permanently from git [duplicate]
I have a repo where I kept my source code. I have cloned and built and run, and I am trying to remove file which is unversioned but unable to delete. I have tried with the below command
git clean -n -...
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Is there an easy way to delete untracked git files [duplicate]
From time to time I have untracked files in my git repository and I'd like to delete them.
Is there an easy way to do so using git or bash or even another way?
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How can I remove patch files from my Git repository? [duplicate]
I'm just learning how to use Git, and somehow by mistake I've patched files and couldn't figure out how to remove them.
When I type $ git status it shows me the patched files which I don't want.
I've ...
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How to reset git repo to a clean state as if I just cloned it? [duplicate]
Basically when fiddling with a git repo of a project, I got lost in what exactly is happening, why some files are the way they are and how it all ties together. I'd just like to reset the whole repo ...
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how to reset to commit while discarding untracked files? [duplicate]
I'd like to reset to a commit and, if there's any new file in my working directory, it should be deleted.
That was the behavior I've expected from git reset --hard [<commit>] but it simply ...
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I'm Using ASP .NET core with git repository command is not working [duplicate]
As you can see Git command to check status untrack file in my repository.
git status
i want to remove/ reset those untrack file but git command is not working
even i try clean untrack file still ...
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removing untracked change from git [duplicate]
I would appreciate if you help me in this problem I have with git. I am new with working with that. I need to remove untracked change from git. I have already tried "git checkout ." and &...
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Cannot delete folders with git clean -f (Windows 11) [duplicate]
I have a 'Test' folder for trying out things using git which looks like this
source
├── src.txt
├── src
│ ├── asdfasdfadsfasdf.txt
│ ├── src-src.txt.txt
i used git clean -f within the folder ...
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Git delete untracked directory [duplicate]
I have an untracked directory full of files I want to delete. When I run git clean -n or git clean -f it does not delete the untracked directory of files. How do I delete an untracked directory of ...