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chwi
chwi

Reputation: 2802

git checkout master does not restore files

I have a repo, being at master. I do git checkout -b new_branch and change, add and commit some files to new_branch. Doing git checkout master keep the files state as they were in new_branch, so I have to do a git checkout -- . on master to get all files to master state.

If I now change back and forth between the branches everything is updated like I expect them to. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: This seems to be a bug with Atom, the text editor I am using. See this issue

Upvotes: 1

Views: 374

Answers (1)

knittl
knittl

Reputation: 265928

This is not how Git behaves, but rather a bug in Atom, which does not update the file buffers in the editor.

The files are properly updated in the working tree by Git.

Upvotes: 1

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