From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:34:36 GMT
Subject: Re: "Your local changes ... would be overwritten" bug
Message-ID: <20110906073436.GA28490@ecki>
In-Reply-To: <8362l73qi6.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 07:25:53PM +0300, Hannu Koivisto wrote:
> 
> I have a problem where "git checkout origin/another-branch" in master
> should remove a set of files but instead I get:
> 
> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
>         file1
>         file2
>         ...
> Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
> Aborting

Could you set a breakpoint in add_rejected_path and send us the
backtrace? Like this:

$ gdb --args git checkout origin/another-branch
>> break add_rejected_path
>> r
... wait for break ...
>> bt

Thanks,
Clemens