From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tracking the untracked
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 20:24:30 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93c3eada0905070354v2b8ff258m8db7b1d4968eb2ce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905071117.00162.trast@student.ethz.ch>
On 5/7/09, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Geoff Russell wrote:
> [...]
> - Consider what happens if you were to recompile at this point, so
> that you again have the _untracked_ (w.r.t. the 'master' branch)
> build products, and then check out B1 again. Git faces the choice
> of either overwriting your worktree files (and losing them) or not
> overwriting (and not doing the checkout right), so it will abort.
> This is a corollary of what Jakub pointed out, Git will not lose
> information unless told to.
Understood. Upon reflection, I can't think of a better alternative.
Cheers and thanks for the help,
Geoff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-07 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-06 1:19 Tracking the untracked Geoff Russell
2009-05-06 9:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-06 13:22 ` Thomas Rast
2009-05-07 7:58 ` Geoff Russell
2009-05-07 8:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-07 9:16 ` Thomas Rast
2009-05-07 10:54 ` Geoff Russell [this message]
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2009-05-31 23:10 Giuseppe Bilotta
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