README.md

Git Kata: Basic cleaning

Setup:

1. Run source setup.sh (or .\setup.ps1 in PowerShell)

The task

You are working on a project that involves generated files. Say you are compiling C files into object files. Before checking out a new branch you want to start clean

1. Explore the directory with ls -R. There is a lot going on. Code files, temp files, object files,.. Let's clean up!
2. Just to be safe, do a dry run and execute the clean command with the -n option
3. Oh noes! there's a .c file that would have been deleted!
4. Add src/mylib.c to the staging area. don't commit it.
5. Run the clean command with the -n option. Notice that mylib.c will not be deleted. Also notice that the files in the obj directory are not listed
6. Run the clean command with the -n -d option.
7. Looks good! clean the repo -f -d

Useful commands

• git clean -n
• git add
• git clean -n -d
• git clean -f -d