Re: .gitignore vs untracked working file

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Aug 10, 2009, 11:41 UTC
Message-ID: <4A800785.8050909@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <286817520908100317k4e98faf9n4e852b7abd4719fe@mail.gmail.com>

Rostislav Svoboda schrieb:

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> 2009/8/10 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>:
>> 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:

It should have been

	$ git ls-tree master bin

> 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?

It might be, depending on how precious Project/bin/path/file.jjt is for you. Try this:

	$ git checkout -f master

This will overwrite the existing file with the version from master. If you later

	$ git checkout mybranch

then the file will be *removed*.

-- Hannes