rake task to delete untracked files in git

UPDATE I should have checked if git has a command for this. Anyway SomeGuy has reminded me once again that I should GTFT (Google the f*** thing) before creating a task. Thanks for the tip SomeGuy :). Long story short, use git clean to cleanup untracked files

Whenever I merge stuff from my colleagues, I end up with a bunch of *.orig files. So, I created a simple rake task which deletes all the untracked files.

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desc 'deletes untracked files'
task 'git:del' do
  files = `git status -s`
  files.lines.each do |f|
    next unless f.start_with? '??'
    f = f.gsub('??', '').strip
    File.delete(f)
    puts "deleted => #{f}"
  end
end


This will permanently delete all untracked files from your working copy, so use it with care! :)

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