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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Tom Koelman <tkoelman@xs4all.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checkout fails when one branch contains a directory with the name of a file in the other branch
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:00:57 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705071500210.4167@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463F0E5E.6000204@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Tom Koelman wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 7 May 2007, Tom Koelman wrote:
> > 
> > > I am not sure whether this is intentional or not. I am wondering why
> > > this scenario fails, and if it is by design, how I should handle this
> > > situation:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > $ git checkout master
> > > fatal: Untracked working tree file 'aFile' would be overwritten by merge.
> > 
> > I tried to reproduce this behaviour, but it worked here. What Git version
> > do you use? Mine says "git version 1.5.2.rc2.2435.ge5a9b".
> > 
> > Hth,
> > Dscho
> 
> I tried 1.5.1.3 under cygwin and 1.5.0.6 under Linux FC5.

I can confirm that it reproduces with 1.5.1.3. So, it has been fixed in 
1.5.2.rc2.

Ciao,
Dscho

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07 11:07 Checkout fails when one branch contains a directory with the name of a file in the other branch Tom Koelman
2007-05-07 11:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07 11:32   ` Tom Koelman
2007-05-07 13:00     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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