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From: "J.V." <jvsrvcs@gmail.com>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: stuck and need unstuck (git checkout)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:57:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51508FFA.4080404@gmail.com> (raw)

I was on a branch (local tracked with remote), and I wanted to checkout 
a remote branch so did:
     $git co myRemoteBranch

and got a message that a lot of jar files were being untracked (files 
were locked).  I had a server running that had some of the jar files 
locked, so it could not update and untracked them all.

What I want to do now is:
     1. switch branches
     2. delete this locally created branch
     3.  re-check out again so all will be well.

I cannot switch branches because it says my untracked files will be 
overwritten.  How do I switch branches? I have no commits to make and 
simply want to go back.  git reset and git stash do not get me there.

thanks

J.V.

             reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-25 17:57 J.V. [this message]
2013-03-30 20:48 ` stuck and need unstuck (git checkout) Phil Hord

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