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It is sometimes useful to get rid of all the cruft you’ve built up locally without manually going in and deleting files individually. Here’s how to get that done with built-in git functions.

To list what will be deleted without actually deleting it:

$ git clean -n

To delete all your local untracked files:

$  git clean -f

To delete all untracked files & directories:

$  git clean -fd

This Stack Overflow answer was useful and provides a bit more context.