Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

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To show the files we have ignored, we can use the clean command. Normally, the clean command will remove the untracked files from the working directory, but it is possible to run this in dry-run mode, -n, which just shows what would happen:

$ git clean -Xnd
Would remove bin/foobar
Would remove test.test
Would remove test.txt.bak

The options used in the preceding command specify the following:

• -n, --dry-run: Only lists what will be removed
• -X: Removes only the files ignored by Git
• -d: Removes the untracked directories in addition to the untracked files

The ignored files can also be listed with the ls-files command:

$ git ls-files -o -i --exclude-standard
bin/foobar
test.test
test.txt.bak

Where the -o option, --others, shows ...