Re: Problems switching branches

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz> wrote:
> Maaartin <grajcar1 <at> seznam.cz> writes:
>
>>
>> I sometimes run in a problem similar to
>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/10/15/3667644/thread
>> There are some ignored files which I want neither track nor throw away; I'm
> just
>> happy to have them and keep them out of version control.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there weren't ignored in the old branch. I'd be quite happy
> with
>> non-destructive switching like "checkout everything what doesn't overwrite an
>> untracked file", so I would end in the old branch with a dirty working tree.
> Is
>> it possible?
>
> No answer?

Which means nobody is interested in. Well, not really.

I also get irritated by a similar situation, where the untracked files
have the same content as the to-be-checked-out files. I have been
tempted (but never got around) to make git compare the in-index
content and the untracked file, if it's the same, no need to abort the
checkout process.

But your approach may be better. Yes, I think it's possible. Any
suggestion for checkout's new argument? --no-overwrite-untracked seems
too long.
-- 
Duy