Git pull - error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:

Question

I keep getting this error when I do a git pull every 60 seconds on my monitoring server. I am using chef and a python script to \"git pull\" every 60 seconds.

Answer 1

Please move or remove them before you can merge.

Aborting

The solution is actually very simple:

git clean  -d  -fx ""

• X - delete ignore file has not identified for git files
• D -- deletion was not added to the git in the path of the file
• F - forced operation