Git doesn’t track directories, so it won’t remove ones that become empty as a result of a merge or other change. However, you can use git clean -fd to remove untracked directories (the -fd flag means force removal of untracked files and directories).
You can run these two commands: # Revert changes to modified files. git reset –hard # Remove all untracked files and directories. # ‘-f’ is force, ‘-d’ is remove directories. git clean -fd
No. Those files are gone. (Just checked on Linux: git clean calls unlink(), and does not backup up anything beforehand.)
Update Feb. 2021, eleven years later: the new git maintenance command (man page) should supersede git gc, and can be scheduled. Original: git gc –aggressive is one way to force the prune process to take place (to be sure: git gc –aggressive –prune=now). You have other commands to clean the repo too. Don’t forget though, … Read more