I suspect that you would get the exact same error if you had run the "git branch" command manually. I doubt it's a magit issue.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Abrahams <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just hit `b' to switch back to my master branch after committing a > bunch of changes elsewhere, and Git failed with the message that one > of the .gitignore files in a submodule was not committed and would be > overwritten by the switch. I don't know if this is a magit issue or a > git issue, but it's very strange! > > Can anyone shed light on what's happening? > > Thanks, > > -- > Dave Abrahams Meet me at BoostCon: http://www.boostcon.com > BoostPro Computing > http://www.boostpro.com > >
