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From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
To: "Cláudio Lourenço" <pt.smooke@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Renato Neves <nevrenato@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help understanding git checkout behavior
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:52:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD63E70.4000309@lyx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMUXYmUFbixgA1bVMA46Zzjed1Dwmjv54kWWXyjsuyu904GpTA@mail.gmail.com>

Op 11-6-2012 18:52, Cláudio Lourenço schreef:
> We are not sure if this behavior has an explanation of if it is just a bug.
>
> We are hoping that you could clarify us about this operation or
> recommend us some place where we can find some useful information
> about this...

I think it is a bug. The file "something/f1" should be retained when 
switching branches. So, checkout should fail because "something" would 
get overwritten by checkout, but it doesn't.

Vincent

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-11 16:52 Help understanding git checkout behavior Cláudio Lourenço
2012-06-11 17:07 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2012-06-11 18:21 ` konglu
2012-06-11 18:34   ` Leila
2012-06-11 18:55     ` Jeff King
2012-06-11 18:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-11 20:48       ` Cláudio Lourenço
2012-06-11 21:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-11 21:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-11 21:47             ` Jeff King
2012-06-11 21:58               ` Jeff King
2012-06-11 22:45               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-11 18:52 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn [this message]

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