Merge branch '5912-git-clean-before-checking' into 'master'

Resolve "ee-files-location-check "git status not clean" - it didn't ignore knapsack"

Closes #5912

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!5604

scripts/ee_specific_check/ee_specific_check.rb

@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ module EESpecificCheck
   end
 
   def find_compare_base
+    # We're still seeing errors not ignoring knapsack/ and rspec_flaky/
+    # Instead of waiting that populate over all the branches, we could
+    # just remove untracked files anyway, only on CI of course in case
+    # we're wiping people's data!
+    # See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5912
+    git_clean if ENV['CI']
+
     setup_canonical_remotes
 
     ce_fetch_head = fetch_remote_ce_branch
@@ -133,6 +140,10 @@ module EESpecificCheck
     run_git_command("status --porcelain")
   end
 
+  def git_clean
+    run_git_command('clean -fd')
+  end
+
   def remove_remotes
     run_git_command(
       "remote remove canonical-ee",