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Delete ignored files #164

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abhisekp opened this issue Aug 21, 2015 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #165
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Delete ignored files #164

abhisekp opened this issue Aug 21, 2015 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #165
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Untrack and delete unwanted or auto-generated files from repo which are ignored using .gitignore files.
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In ref. to #163 (comment)

Deletion worked using the following command

git ls-files --ignored --exclude-standard | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -n255 git rm

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28806991/1262108

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