is it safe to remove untracked files from my branch

[mallikarjun ithagoni]

if i remove untracked files then what happens ? is it safe to remove untracked files from my branch.

After commiting my changes , i want to create new branch but it is not allowing me to do.

[mallikarjun ithagoni]

some times Source tree itself is adding changes so those files i want to delete.

finally i removed and working fine...

thank you all for answers.......

[Seth]

The only files SourceTree adds should be Git configuration files (.gitignore, for example). You can remove that safely, but Git will no longer ignore whatever files you wanted to ignore.

[Seth]

Removing untracked files is deleting them, permanently. They do NOT get sent to trash/recycle bin, and (because they are untracked) sourcetree can not retrieve them by checking out the original branch or an earlier version.

[mallikarjun ithagoni]

it means i should not do that or is it fine

[Seth]

It depends on what the files are and what you are trying to do. It depends on your definitions of "safe" and "fine". The shortest answer is this:

If you are 100% sure that you never ever ever want to have access to those untracked files, then you can remove them.