git refuses to switch to older branches
- From
Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
- Date
- Aug 19, 2006, 20:25 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20060819202558.GE30022@admingilde.org>
hoi :)
now that gitweb.cgi is autogenerated, git refuses to switch to old branches unless force is applied:
fatal: Untracked working tree file 'gitweb/gitweb.cgi' would be overwritten by merge.
This safety measure is quite useful normally, but for files that are explicitly marked as to-be-ignored it should not be neccessary.
But all the code that handles .gitignore is only used by ls-files now. Does it make sense to add exclude handling to unpack-trees.c, too?
-- Martin Waitz