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From: Dima Kagan <dima.kagan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git branches - confusing behavior
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:33:21 +0300
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>> Basically I see that the same file I edited on the 'test_branch'
>> branch appears to be modified on the 'master' branch as well. This
>> behavior is unwanted, of course.
>>
>> Can someone please tell me, what am doing wrong? Or is this git's
>> normal behavior?
> 

I just realized that this behavior is even more confusing.
If I commit the file on 'test_branch' and only then 'git checkout master' the changes are not visible on 'master' until I merge. So why should 'master' be affected by uncommitted changes on some branch???