Re: Tracking remote branches

From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2009, 18:30 UTC
Message-ID: <a4c8a6d00909141130o628a069fu4c489b25f95f543d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090914050145.GA12985@vidovic>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr> wrote:

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> The 13/09/09, Thiago Farina wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that I could do simply, instead of above:
>> $ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint
>
> Or
> $ git checkout -t origin/maint
>
>> OK, now I switched to maint branch. And then I did:
>> $ git status
>>
>> # On branch maint
>> # Changes to be committed
>> #    (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
>> #
>> #          new file:    git-remote-curl
>> #          new file:    git-replace
>> #
>>
>> What happened here? What I have to do now?
>
> You've probably added these files to the index, mistakenly. If you don't
> have uncommited changes, try :
>
>  git checkout -f master
>  git branch -D maint
>  git checkout -t origin/maint
>  git status
>
> The files should now be shown as "Untracked files".

Yeah, now the files has this status. But I don't have anything related with these files, I didn't add these files. Why these files has this status? Is supposed to me to do something about that when this situation occurs?