Re: Problems switching branches

>> But your approach may be better. Yes, I think it's possible. Any
>> suggestion for checkout's new argument? --no-overwrite-untracked seems
>> too long.
>
> I would go even further: a switch called "ignorant" or "lenient"
> allowing to always switch branches in a non-destructible way. All files
> normally causing abort would be left unmodified, so you could do
> git checkout --ignorant forth; git checkout back
> and would (assuming you started in branch "back") land in the original
> state without loosing anything. Of course, this means, that the ignorant
> checkout doesn't lead you into a clean state, but that's why I'd like to
> use a switch instead of making it the default. :)