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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-05-06 17:48:26 (GMT)
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git-clean doc: the command only affects paths under $(cwd)
Fredrik Skolmli and Thomas Rast noticed that it was left unstated that "git clean" ran from a subdirectory will not affect anything outside it, with or without path limiters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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DESCRIPTION
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-This allows cleaning the working tree by removing files that are not
-under version control.
+Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
+under version control, starting from the current directory.
Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the '-x'
option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for