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? In the meantime I've found a simple workaround: Checkout the old branch in another directory, modify .gitignore, commit and retry. But this is far from cool. Am I doing something stupid and nobody else ran into this? -- 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