On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 2:15:24 PM UTC-7, Brendan Leber wrote:
>
> I would use "git clean --interactive" to remove dead files and 
> directories from my local repository. 
>

Curiously, this finds leftover files below the directory that still remains 
in the remote repo, but it still ignored the several leftover peer 
directories that I'm referring to here.


> B 
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:11 PM, David Karr <davidmic...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > When I first cloned a remote repo, it had several subdirectories, and I 
> had 
> > Eclipse create projects automatically. 
> > 
> > Since that time, all but one of those subdirectories have been removed 
> from 
> > master. 
> > 
> > I want to just reset my local repo to match the remote, but try as I 
> might, 
> > it just is not removing those leftover peer subdirectories (and 
> contents) 
> > that are now removed from master on the remote. 
> > 
> > I've tried "git pull", "git pull -f", and "git reset --hard" both from 
> the 
> > command line and from Eclipse.  The phantom directories are not removed. 
> > 
> > I know I could just nuke my local repo and reclone from the remote repo, 
> but 
> > I do have some stashes that I'd like to preserve for now. 
> > 
> > What else do I have to do to clean up these phantoms? 
> > 
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