Re: git refuses to switch to older branches

> hoi :)
> 
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Martin Waitz wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> Sure. But we are only talking about files which are explicitly
> ignored in one branch and are tracked in another branch.
> 
> Perhaps it makes sense to check that the file is _not_ ignored in the
> other branch (in which it is tracked).
> Would such a check make everybody happy?