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Re: [BUG] git checkout <branch> allowed with uncommitted changes

From
Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 13, 2011, 16:17 UTC
Message-ID
<20111013201711.3d55c693@ashu.dyn.rarus.ru>
In-Reply-To
<loom.20111013T171530-970@post.gmane.org>
> Lucky you. :P  The most likely reason for me is, I'm working on
> something and I get interrupted and have to switch. Since the code
> may well not even compile at this point, the last thing I want to do
> is commit it.

"git stash" helps here With Git you can/have_to/must change your SVN-based habits. DO NOT BE AFRAID OF FREQUENT COMMITS! There are local until you push them.

>git's ability for that commit to be local is half the
> reason I'm trying to switch to it.

You always have a chance to modify/reedit you commits see "git commit --amend" and "git rebase [-i]"

I'm telling you it as an ex-SVN user.
>(I'm not particularly keen on
> having to commit broken code to even a local repo, but that's still a
> hell of a lot better than having it pushed upstream as well).

Again, do not be afraid to commit your changes. Be afraid of losing your changes. Git makes everything (as other discussion participants already described) to keep your changes within workflow when you switch between branches often.

Read some books which are describe Git's usual (and effective) workflow, ProGit - http://progit.org/book/ Version Contol by Example (there is a chapter about Git) - http://git-scm.com/course/svn.html

Hope, you'll feel the power of Git ))
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