Re: git refuses to switch to older branches

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 20, 2006, 12:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608201447470.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060820122128.GG30022@admingilde.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Martin Waitz wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:44:57AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:39:20AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> > > But I would suggest you to be _extremely_ careful if you want to
> > > try this.  I do not have an example offhand, but I would not be
> > > surprised at all if there is a valid use case where it is useful
> > > to have a pattern that matches a tracked file in .gitignore
> > > file.
> > 
> >   *.o and binary blobs of closed-source software.
> 
> but if you want to switch from one branch which has the .o file
> built from source to another branch which has the .o file tracked
> in binary form, wouldn't you want to remove the generated file
> in order to store the tracked one from the new branch?

Not necessarily. Sometimes you have files in your working directory, which are not in your repository, you know?

Ciao, Dscho