"Maris, Rob" <maris....@ingenieur.de> writes: > Normally, when there are modifications in the working tree not yet added > resp. committed, git will refuse to change to another branch.
Only if switching the branch requires touching the modified files. > Actually, the modified > status of git related to both branches after git checkout -b can have > following consequences: > > - it is lost definitely when git reset -hard is executed This is true regardless. > - if committed, it is committed into the newly created branch This is often the desired state, and there is no harm in doing it accidentally. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html