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rico
rico

Reputation: 1935

git checkout master automatically moves my other not committed branch changes

Let's suppose I am on master branch and then I do :

git branch new_branch
git checkout new_branch
touch newFile.txt

When I do git checkout master to come back to my master branch, I expect I have a clean workspace and no trace of newFile.txt. But git automatically moves newFile.txt in my master branch.

Is this the default git behavior? How could I change it?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 42

Answers (1)

knittl
knittl

Reputation: 265141

Uncommitted changes are not part of any branch, they live in the working copy. To remove untracked files, use the git clean command. This is default behavior of Git and cannot be changed.

Also, see Move existing, uncommited work to a new branch in Git. Whether or not the branch is new or an existing does not really matter.

Upvotes: 3

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