How can I remove all files in my git repo and update/push from my local git repo?

Question

Is it possible to remove all files in a repository and update it with only the files I have in my local machine? The reason is that, there are certain files that is not necessar

Answer 1

Remove all files not belonging to a repositiory (e.g. for a clean-build after switching a branch):

 git status | xargs rm -rf