Re: git status --porcelain is a mess that needs fixing

Jeff King wrote:

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

No, the capital X tells clean to only list excluded files.  The
standard use is as a poor man’s “make maintainer-clean”, leaving
unrelated files alone.

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

Jonathan