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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index a81cb6c280..79fb984144 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] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... +'git clean' [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-e <pattern>] [-x | -X] [--] <path>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -45,8 +45,16 @@ OPTIONS Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are successfully removed. +-e <pattern>:: +--exclude=<pattern>:: + 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. @@ -55,12 +63,6 @@ OPTIONS Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. - -Author ------- -Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> - - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |