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Take a backup of untracked files
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git-backup-untracked.sh
# Most of the time, it's safe to delete all the untracked files. But many times, there is a situation wherein you want to delete, but also to create a backup of your untracked files just in case you need them later.
# Git, along with some Bash command piping, makes it easy to create a zip archive for your untracked files.
git ls-files --others --exclude-standard -z | xargs -0 tar rvf ~/backup-untracked.zip
# The above command makes an archive (and excludes files listed in .gitignore) with the name backup-untracked.zip
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