git-clear(1)

git-clear1

Rigorously clean up a repository

Usage

git-clear

Overview

Clears the repository to a state that it looks as if it was freshly cloned with the current HEAD. Basically it is a git-reset --hard together with deletion of all untracked files that reside inside the working directory, including those in .gitignore.

Options

-f, --force

Force the clean, with no warning to the user

-h, --help, ?

Display usage

Examples

•

Clears the repo, with user confirmation required.

$ git clear

•

Clears the repo, without user confirmation.

$ git clear -f

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13

Author

Written by Daniel 'grindhold' Brendle <[email protected]>

Reporting bugs

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>

From git-extras 7.3.0-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.