Re: My first git success [not quite]

sean wrote:

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On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:39:28 -0800
walt [off-list ref] wrote:

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So, I clearly don't understand what git-checkout does.  It
doesn't seem to touch the already-checked-out sources at
all, which is what I would expect it to do.

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Hi Walt,

When you switch branches _uncommitted_ changes will stay in
your working directory.   This lets you change to a different
branch before committing something you're working on for
instance.

Ah!  The underlying reason is what I was missing.

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  So likely, even though you had switched to your
test branch to apply the patch, you didn't actually commit
it into that branch before switching back to master.

Right.  And *my* reasoning (FWIW) is that I was intending
to throw the entire branch away so I didn't see any need to
commit.  (But men always have that problem ;o)

I suppose the underlying problem is that I don't think like
a developer.  My wish for a future improvement for git would
be a bonehead<-->expert switch that would turn on some basic
warning messages.  In this particular example, I would have
welcomed a warning message that said:  "You have uncommitted
changes!  Hit 'D' to discard them or <Enter> to keep them without
committing".  An experienced git user would want to turn that off,
most likely.

Thanks for the clue-stick, and I very much appreciate your
patience.