On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:57 PM, J.V. <jvsrvcs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was on a branch (local tracked with remote), and I wanted to checkout a > remote branch so did: > $git co myRemoteBranch > > and got a message that a lot of jar files were being untracked (files were > locked). I had a server running that had some of the jar files locked, so > it could not update and untracked them all. > > What I want to do now is: > 1. switch branches > 2. delete this locally created branch > 3. re-check out again so all will be well. > > I cannot switch branches because it says my untracked files will be > overwritten. How do I switch branches? I have no commits to make and simply > want to go back. git reset and git stash do not get me there. Does 'git checkout --force yourLocalBranch' help? Phil -- 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