Hi I have a .gitignore rule to ignore everything in bin/ directories but I cannot change branch because of a file lying in a bin/ directory which actually should be ignored. What am I doing wrong? $ git branch master * mybranch $ git status # On branch mybranch nothing to commit (working directory clean) $ cat .gitignore *.class .cvsignore CVS/ .metadata/ build/ bin/ .#* $ git checkout master error: Untracked working tree file 'Project/bin/path/file.jjt' would be overwritten by merge. $ git --version git version 1.6.4.msysgit.0 thx Bost -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html