Re: can anybody explain the following to a git noob?

>>
>> Did test_new contain ignored files?
>
> No.  I put the entire transcript in the first email. I did not tell
> git to ignore anything and there were no .git directories in the test
> folder.
>
>> In this case, when you checkout the
>> branch that does not have test_new, only the tracked files are removed;
>> the ignored (i.e untracked) files remain. Therefore, after the checkout
>> you still have a test_new directory.
>>
>
> As far as I can tell all the files are tracked after I do a commit.
>
> I can understand why it put the original test directory back when I
> changed to the master branch but I don't understand why it's missing a
> subdirectory.  I don't think the test_new directory should be in the
> master branch at all but I guess I can kind of sort of see why git
> might not remove it. What I can't understand at all is why it's
> missing subdirectories.

> I hate to say this but I tried the exact same thing with mercurial in
> the last half hour and it did exactly what I thought it should do. The
> master had the test directory but not the test_new and the branch had
> the test_new directory but not the test. No subdirectories were
> missing out of either one.