Git - remove untracked files

In this short article we would like to show how to remove untracked files using Git in command line.

Run following command:

git clean -fd

Where -fd means: clean files and directories.

Practical example

Let's suppose we want to remove logs directory.

Simple steps:

1. check if some files are untracked

   git status

   Output:

   On branch master
   Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
   
   Untracked files:
     (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
   
   	logs/
   
   nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

2. clean untracked files

   git clean -fd

   Output:

   Removing logs/

3. check if files were removed:

   git status

   Output:

   On branch master
   Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
   
   nothing to commit, working tree clean