Git clean removed files not shown in git status

Question

First I ran git status

[user@dev config]$ git status
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#       app1-core/
#       app1/local.json.hold
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

later on I ran git clean.

[user@dev config]$ git clean -xfd
Removing app2/local.json
Removing app3/local.json
Removing app4/local.json
Removing app5/local.json
Removing app6/local.json
Removing app1-core/
Removing app1/local.json.hold

I'm wondering why it removed these additional files that didn't show up as untracked in the git status command above.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '15 at 15:30

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Because -x means: "don’t use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore"

answered Nov 23 '15 at 15:30

Claudio

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Is ```git clean -nxfd``` the only complete alternative to ```git status``` that shows these files? – Josiah Yoder Apr 20 '19 at 15:47

Git clean removed files not shown in git status

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