On Aug 13, 9:09 am, Sitaram Chamarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Jeenu<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Git doesn't warn, by the way; instead, it just removes the file if I
> > checkout a branch where the file is not tracked (master), from one
> > where it's tracked (foo).
>
> > One option that I see is to merge foo to master, so that files that
> > are tracked on foo, but are untracked on master, become tracked on the
> > latter.
>
> At which point git will complain that "untracked file foo will be
> overwritten by merge" :-)
>
> Sorry, you can't win this one.
SVN too behaves the same. But GIT being a snapshot saver/restorer (at
least that's he picture I've got so far), I was a bit surprised.
So I guess it's a "globally accepted behavior", and I just live with
it :)
Thanks
:J
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