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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 60e38e6e27..03056dad0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... +'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory. -Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the '-x' +Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the `-x` option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for example, be useful to remove all build products. @@ -27,14 +27,22 @@ OPTIONS ------- -d:: Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. - If an untracked directory is managed by a different git + If an untracked directory is managed by a different Git repository, it is not removed by default. Use -f option twice if you really want to remove such a directory. -f:: --force:: - If the git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set - to false, 'git clean' will refuse to run unless given -f or -n. + If the Git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set + to false, 'git clean' will refuse to delete files or directories + unless given -f, -n or -i. Git will refuse to delete directories + with .git sub directory or file unless a second -f + is given. + +-i:: +--interactive:: + Show what would be done and clean files interactively. See + ``Interactive mode'' for details. -n:: --dry-run:: @@ -47,25 +55,86 @@ OPTIONS -e <pattern>:: --exclude=<pattern>:: - Specify special exceptions to not be cleaned. Each <pattern> is - the same form as in $GIT_DIR/info/excludes and this option can be - given multiple times. + In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and + $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the + set of the ignore rules in effect. -x:: - Don't use the ignore rules. This allows removing all untracked + Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per + directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore + rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine working directory to test a clean build. -X:: - Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild + Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. +Interactive mode +---------------- +When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the +files and directories to be cleaned, and goes into its +interactive command loop. + +The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and +gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends +with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given +and type return, like this: + +------------ + *** Commands *** + 1: clean 2: filter by pattern 3: select by numbers + 4: ask each 5: quit 6: help + What now> 1 +------------ + +You also could say `c` or `clean` above as long as the choice is unique. + +The main command loop has 6 subcommands. + +clean:: + + Start cleaning files and directories, and then quit. + +filter by pattern:: + + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-separated + patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion. + E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from + deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press + ENTER (empty) back to the main menu. -Author ------- -Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> +select by numbers:: + This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an + "Select items to delete>>" prompt. When the prompt ends with double + '>>' like this, you can make more than one selection, concatenated + with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" + to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a + range is omitted, all remaining items are selected. E.g. "7-" to + choose 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything. + Also when you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER + (empty) back to the main menu. + +ask each:: + + This will start to clean, and you must confirm one by one in order + to delete items. Please note that this action is not as efficient + as the above two actions. + +quit:: + + This lets you quit without do cleaning. + +help:: + + Show brief usage of interactive git-clean. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:gitignore[5] GIT --- |