Discard Untracked Changes

Introduction

When working with Git, it's common to have untracked changes in your working directory. These changes are files that Git is not currently tracking. Sometimes, you may want to discard these changes and start fresh. In this challenge, you will learn how to discard all untracked changes to the current branch.

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Discard Untracked Changes

You are working on a project using Git and have made some changes to your working directory. However, you realize that you don't need these changes and want to discard them. You want to discard all untracked changes to the current branch.

Tasks

To complete this challenge, you will use the Git repository named https://github.com/labex-labs/git-playground.

1. Navigate to the repository directory.
2. Check the status of your working directory.
3. Discard all untracked changes to the current branch.
4. Check the status of your working directory again.

You should see the following output:

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Summary

Discarding untracked changes is a useful Git command when you want to start fresh and discard any changes that Git is not currently tracking. Use the git clean -f -d command to discard all untracked changes to the current branch.