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by properdine 1486 days ago
if you do a `git clean -f`, untracked files get deleted. Ignoring files that should stick around helps ensure that command can be used nicely. I've never used `git clean -fdx`, not sure why you would use the `-x` flag at all.

(but agreed if you use `-fdx` that doesn't work)