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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By : Ravishankar Somasundaram
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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By: Ravishankar Somasundaram

Overview of this book

<div> <div>Git – is free software which enables you to maintain different versions of single or multiple files present inside a directory(folder), and allows you to switch back and forth between them at any given point of time. It also allows multiple people to work on the same file collaboratively or in parallel, without being connected to a server or any other centralized system continuously.<br /><br />This book is a step by step, practical guide, helping you learn the routine of version controlling all your content, every day. <br /><br />If you are an average computer user who wants to be able to maintain multiple versions of files and folders, or to go back and forth in time with respect to the files content – look no further. The workflow explained in this book will benefit anyone, no matter what kind of text or documentation they work on.<br /><br />This book will also benefit developers, administrators, analysts, architects and anyone else who wishes to perform simultaneous, collaborative work, or work in parallel on the same set of files. Git's advanced features are there to make your life easier.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </div>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Git: Version Control for Everyone Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – wipe out your mess completely, no exceptions


To remove these files, which have been populated in our repository unwantedly, you just call for a napalm strike on them! That's right, from the earlier command you just exclude the exclusion part.

git clean –f

This should give an output as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

The clean command removes all untracked files from your current repository. The –f parameter forces git clean to remove those untracked files from your repository.

The following is the list of parameters you can put to use with git clean:

Parameter

Action description

Short form

Full form

 

-f

--force

Removes untracked files

-d

 

Removes untracked directories along with files

-n

--dry-run

Doesn't remove anything, but show what will be done

-q

--quiet

Stays quiet and only reports errors but not the files that were successfully removed

-e<pattern>

--exclude=<pattern>

Excludes the...