# Re: About checkout with untracked files on remote.

1 messages from 2015-02-25 to 2015-02-25. Participants: Eugene Fedorov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/38654

## Eugene Fedorov, 2015-02-25 19:45

Subject: Re: About checkout with untracked files on remote.
Message-ID: <DEA06477-4036-4941-A0C6-CF3D5DB15C96@gmail.com>
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I have specific case which you can use to improve git.

My example:
I have 2 branches - master, implement_button.
Branch implement_button add some button with few style.css and fonts files.
Both branches have same git ignore file where all fonts and css folders with files ignored.

The point:
Now my active branch is implement_button. 
1 Try to checkout to remote master branch and get error:
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
css/style.css
css/fonts/RobotoSlab-Bold-webfont.eot
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborted.

So we have case where master haven’t new ignored files.
We can’t use "git clean -df" bc it not clean untracked files. Bc implement_button branch it is not untracked.
I can’t use "git clean -dfx» bc i need some another ignored files.
I can’t use force checkout bc i need this files be deleted.
Also i can’t get this error without run checkout, so or i will be checkout or error. Dry-run not work for this command.  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28714372/how-to-catch-git-error-on-checkout-without-checkout/28714462#28714462

So i need help understand how i can do this? Parse rendered error to get the list of files to drop and drop them? 
Hope i can do this in another way =)

P.S. Thank you very much for try help me =)
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