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Atiq
Atiq

Reputation: 488

Git won't allow me to switch branches

$git branch stable development

I have properties file which has password for Database connection, now I had to change the properties file (say xyz.properties) for password. So that i can use on local server. and added this file path into .gitignore and $git update-index --assume-unchanged xyz.properties

$git status On branch stable Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/stable'. nothing to commit, working directory clean

Now i wanted to change ...branch to development $git checkout development

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout: .gitignore x/y/z/xyz.properties

Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches. Aborting

Now I want to change branch to development and make branch and work on them.

So how can i achieve this task...please help me out. Thanks in Advance

Edit when i tried $git stash No local changes to save

Note: I need to use local server from every branch , which required my xyz.properties files to be modified because my local db has different password then repository.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 7018

Answers (2)

Atiq
Atiq

Reputation: 488

So the issue is to modify the xyz.properties file as per your environment need, so if you try to put it into .gitignore file, it will not work, because xyz.properties is tracked file and synced with repository.so now there is two things can be done.

1> untrack the xyz.properties file and put them into .gitignore, but it will not sync with repository, and you cannot share a basic properties file which is beneficial for other programmers who are using same project and requires the repository and properties file.

2> make a xyz.properties.example in repo that will be shared and synced by repo and will be available to everyone who are using the same project. Now put xyz.propertes into .gitignore , who ever is using will create local file and copy the contents from xyz.properties.example , and obviously that file will remain untracked and ignored.

Hence you can achieve your task...better way.

Upvotes: 1

steven
steven

Reputation: 560

Make sure stash it and switch another branch

git stash
git checkout development

Now you can work at branch development

when you checkout back, you need restore your workplace and delete stash

git checkout last_branch
git stash pop

Notice: you can check out your stash status by

git stash list

if it returns nothing. Your workplace is clean. Now you can work at last_branch.

Upvotes: 1

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