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Re: Problems switching branches

From
MMaaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz>
Date
Nov 4, 2010, 00:23 UTC
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<loom.20101104T012032-963@post.gmane.org>
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<loom.20101103T032930-451@post.gmane.org>
Maaartin <grajcar1 <at> seznam.cz> writes:
> 
> I sometimes run in a problem similar to
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/10/15/3667644/thread
> There are some ignored files which I want neither track nor throw away; I'm 
just 
> happy to have them and keep them out of version control.
> 
> Unfortunately, there weren't ignored in the old branch. I'd be quite happy 
with 
> non-destructive switching like "checkout everything what doesn't overwrite an 
> untracked file", so I would end in the old branch with a dirty working tree. 
Is 
> it possible?

No answer? In the meantime I've found a simple workaround: Checkout the old branch in another directory, modify .gitignore, commit and retry. But this is far from cool. Am I doing something stupid and nobody else ran into this?

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