It is not at all destructive. Git will block you from checking out if the
action will be destructive. When switching back to the not-tracked branch,
file is simply removed from your working copy. That does not mean it was
lost, you can still pull the file out of the branch you were in:
http://gist.github.com/168695
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On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Jeenu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 16, 3:31 pm, Sitaram Chamarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Jeenu<[email protected]> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > So I guess it's a "globally accepted behavior", and I just live with
> > > it :)
> >
> > Actually, it's got nothing to do with "accepted". No other meaningful
> > behaviour is even possible.
> >
> > Let's say you're on branch B, and then checkout branch A.
> >
> > Git has no way to distinguish between this file that you say should
> > not get deleted, and some other file that really should only exist in
> > B and therefore _should_ get deleted when moving to A.
>
> It makes sense when you track a project or set of files from the
> beginning. That way you know what gets created when et.al. so it's
> easy to decide what goes to where.
>
> But, say, when one's trying to track a set of existing (set of) files,
> I find this removal inappropriate. I'm trying to use GIT because I
> don't know what files I'm going to change, so I don't know what to add
> to GIT in advance. In my case at least, I wondered where my file went,
> later realizing GIT deleted it because it was tracked on one branch,
> but not on another. At the same time, it wasn't feasible for me to add
> the whole set to GIT, their number being so huge. After all, removal
> is a destructive operation!
>
> :J
>
> >
>
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