seeing files not checked in?

[Bob Carpenter]

We were trying to do the current release and I got
bit by having some .o files lying around that hugely
inflated the size. We tracked them down by divide
and conquer on the files.

I wasn't seeing them on "git status" because there
was a general .gitignore for .o files.

Is there a way to see things in the directory that
aren't in version control?

- Bob

[Bob Carpenter]

Daniel figured it out:

> git clean -n -x

And then to get rid of them

> git clean -f -x

I thought it'd be a bit extreme to do that automatically
on our dist target.

- Bob

[Ben Goodrich]

That is probably a bit extreme for a dist target. But to answer your original question, see

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3538144/how-do-you-git-show-untracked-files-that-do-not-exist-in-gitignore

Ben