On Mar 31, 6:03 pm, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:11 PM, vfclists <vfcli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 4:20 pm, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is this what you are looking for? > > >>http://www.gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/19/ignoring-files.html > > > Using .gitignore is something I have considered, but it looks like it > > is going to get more interesting than that. > > I will probably have to use separate directories, and use some kind of > > condititional excludes or includes if .gitignore supports something > > like that. > > > Does checking out a branch erase all the directories and files in the > > working directory and replace them with only the contents of the > > branch? > > Only files which are tracked will be affected by a checkout. > > Files don't get tracked until you git add them. > > .gitignore is a way to keep new files from being tracked. >
Does this mean that if you checkout a branch, only files that you add are committed, even if in the original branch they are still tracked? That will be a new discovery for me if that is the way git works. It will make things a lot easier for me it it works that way. I could remove all the files and add only the ones I need to change. > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
