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Re: .gitignore vs untracked working file

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Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2009, 10:17 UTC
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2009/8/10 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>:
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> Hello,
>
>> $ git checkout master
>> error: Untracked working tree file 'Project/bin/path/file.jjt' would
>> be overwritten by merge.
> What is the output of
>
>        $ git ls-files master bin/
Nothing:

$ git ls-files master bin/ $ git ls-files master Project/bin/ $ git ls-files mybranch bin/ $ git ls-files mybranch Project/bin/

$ ll 'Project/bin/path/file.jjt' -rw-r--r-- 1 bost Administ 8233 May 10 2006 Project/bin/path/file.jjt $ git ls-files ''Project/bin/path/file.jjt'

BTW the rule to ignore bin/ is exclusively in the .gitignore on the branch mybranch not in the master branch. Might this be the problem?

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