From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 10:44:58 GMT
Subject: Re: can anybody explain the following to a git noob?
Message-ID: <4A16822A.2060404@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <855e4dcf0905220335n367a065fidc65567119c0a5a3@mail.gmail.com>

Tim Uckun schrieb:
> I still don't have an answer as to why the renamed test_new directory
> exists master branch and why both the original 'test' directory and
> the renamed 'test_new' directory are missing subdirectories.

Did test_new contain ignored files? In this case, when you checkout the
branch that does not have test_new, only the tracked files are removed;
the ignored (i.e untracked) files remain. Therefore, after the checkout
you still have a test_new directory.

-- Hannes