diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index eea65d62970c9854af0f83718fb8cf6355531219..7e6dc41ad282a5a6bf5d0b09dcd813da3a7d49b7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ variables:
   TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_STV: 900
   TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_LTV: 2400
   TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_STV_SANITIZERS: 1800
+  GIT_CLEAN_FLAGS: -ffdxq
   MANUAL_PIPELINE_TYPE:
     description: "Type for the manual pipeline run. Use 'pytest-mld' to run MLD test against reference float codec." # Not implemented yet, but may be good to have a manual pipeline trigger
     value: 'default'