Quoting Eugene Sajine <euguess@xxxxxxxxx> > My question is related to the fact that most of the time when i have > some local file changes Git is switching branches OK. But from time to > time in some repos I'm hitting this error and I cannot figure out why > it suddenly starts to complain about it? The command is telling you that it refrained to overwrite your local changes. It's not complaining. There is an excellent summary of what switching branches with 'git checkout' while you have local changes in your working tree. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77700/focus=77708 -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/ -- 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