When you have files in your .gitignore they won't be considered for changes, but still you might want to get rid of them, e.g. because they clutter your file system.

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While a regular git clean will ignore them as well, passing the -x switch changes that:

git clean -x

If you want to see what would happen first, make sure to pass the -n switch for a dry run:

git clean -xn

Clean even harder by passing the -f (force cleaning under certain circumstances; I think this is also required by default) or -d (removes directories) switches:

git clean -xdf

Careful: You may be ignoring local config files like database.yml which would also be removed. Use at your own risk.