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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:12:24 -0500
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Jeff King wrote:

> You do "git clean -ndX" to see
> _everything_ that is untracked, and "git clean -nd" to see things tha=
t
> are untracked but not ignored.

No, the capital X tells clean to only list excluded files.  The
standard use is as a poor man=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cmake maintainer-clean=E2=
=80=9D, leaving
unrelated files alone.

I only learned about it just now.  I=E2=80=99m glad I did (I often use =
the
lowercase version for this because I just didn=E2=80=99t know about -X)=
, but
as you mentioned, it is not so applicable here because not plumbing.

Jonathan