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Re: git refuses to switch to older branches

From
Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date
Aug 20, 2006, 12:21 UTC
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<20060820122128.GG30022@admingilde.org>
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<20060819224457.GB23891@pasky.or.cz>
hoi :)
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:44:57AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:39:20AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> > But I would suggest you to be _extremely_ careful if you want to
> > try this.  I do not have an example offhand, but I would not be
> > surprised at all if there is a valid use case where it is useful
> > to have a pattern that matches a tracked file in .gitignore
> > file.
> 
>   *.o and binary blobs of closed-source software.

but if you want to switch from one branch which has the .o file built from source to another branch which has the .o file tracked in binary form, wouldn't you want to remove the generated file in order to store the tracked one from the new branch?

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Martin Waitz
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Message 8 of 15 in “git refuses to switch to older branches”
  1. Martin WaitzAug 19, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2006
  7. Petr BaudisAug 19, 2006
  8. Martin WaitzAug 20, 2006
  9. Johannes SchindelinAug 20, 2006
  10. Martin WaitzAug 20, 2006
  11. Johannes SchindelinAug 20, 2006
  12. Josef WeidendorferAug 20, 2006
  13. Alex RiesenAug 20, 2006
  14. Martin WaitzAug 20, 2006
  15. Alex RiesenSep 8, 2006

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