From: Martin Waitz Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:25:58 GMT Subject: git refuses to switch to older branches 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