Showing and cleaning ignored files

Ignoring files is useful for filtering noise from the output of git status. But sometimes, it's necessary to check which files are ignored. This example will show you how to do that.

Getting ready

We'll continue in the repository from the last example.

How to do it...

To show the files we have ignored, we can use the clean command. Normally, the clean command will remove the untracked files from the working directory, but it is possible to run this in dry-run mode, -n, which just shows what would happen:

$ git clean -Xnd
Would...