Re: "Your local changes ... would be overwritten" bug

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 07:25:53PM +0300, Hannu Koivisto wrote:

I have a problem where "git checkout origin/another-branch" in master
should remove a set of files but instead I get:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
        file1
        file2
        ...
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
Aborting

Could you set a breakpoint in add_rejected_path and send us the
backtrace? Like this:

$ gdb --args git checkout origin/another-branch

quoted

break add_rejected_path
r

... wait for break ...

quoted

bt

Thanks,
Clemens