Howdy all, This is my first post so I'm not sure if there's a more appropriate way to post a "bug" like this one but I've been using git for a few years now and having learned most of the idiosyncrasies, there's one that still bugs me. So I'm sure we're all familiar with the behavior or switching branches. Sometimes, when I switch to a branch at an earlier state, some newly added files will stick around from the previous (newer) branch which count as "new" files to the current (older) branch. When I do this I'm often just switching to the branch to test things out, poke around, and switch right back. At that point, when I try to switch back to the newer branch, I can't because "some files will be overwritten" even though those files came from the branch I'm trying to switch to!
I'm not exactly sure what should be the preferred behavior. Maybe git could compare these files the ones that would overwrite them, or maybe it could delete the files when switching out of that branch. It would be great if this issue could be addressed, though. Thanks! -Matt Schoen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/jn0ipgOcLVcJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
