Re: Tracking the untracked

From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2009, 10:54 UTC
Message-ID: <93c3eada0905070354v2b8ff258m8db7b1d4968eb2ce@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200905071117.00162.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On 5/7/09, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> Geoff Russell wrote:
> [...]
>  - Consider what happens if you were to recompile at this point, so
>   that you again have the _untracked_ (w.r.t. the 'master' branch)
>   build products, and then check out B1 again.  Git faces the choice
>   of either overwriting your worktree files (and losing them) or not
>   overwriting (and not doing the checkout right), so it will abort.
>   This is a corollary of what Jakub pointed out, Git will not lose
>   information unless told to.

Understood. Upon reflection, I can't think of a better alternative.

Cheers and thanks for the help,

Geoff.