How to Remove Untracked Files in Git (git clean)

git clean deletes files that are untracked by Git — files never added or committed — from your working directory.

Key points

• git clean -n performs a dry run, listing what would be deleted without actually removing anything — always run this first
• git clean -f actually deletes the untracked files listed
• git clean -fd also removes untracked directories, and -x additionally removes files ignored by .gitignore

Example

git clean -n\ngit clean -fd