So I added a folder to my .gitignore file.
Once I do a git status
it tells me
# On branch latest nothing to commit (working directory clean)
However, when I try to change branches I get the following:
My-MacBook-Pro:webapp marcamillion$ git checkout develop error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout: public/system/images/9/thumb/red-stripe.jpg public/system/images/9/original/red-stripe.jpg public/system/images/8/thumb/red-stripe-red.jpg public/system/images/8/original/red-stripe-red.jpg public/system/images/8/original/00-louis_c.k.-chewed_up-cover-2008.jpg public/system/images/7/thumb/red-stripe-dark.jpg public/system/images/7/original/red-stripe-dark.jpg public/system/images/7/original/DSC07833.JPG public/system/images/6/thumb/red-stripe-bw.jpg public/system/images/6/original/website-logo.png public/system/images/6/original/red-stripe-bw.jpg public/system/images/5/thumb/Guy_Waving_Jamaican_Flag.jpg public/system/images/5/original/logocompv-colored-squares-100px.png public/system/images/5/original/Guy_Waving_Jamaican_Flag.jpg public/system/images/4/thumb/DSC_0001.JPG public/system/images/4/original/logo.png public/system/images/4/original/DSC_0001.JPG public/system/images/4/original/2-up.jpg public/system/images/3/thumb/logo2.gif public/system/images/3/original/logo2.gif public/system/images/3/original/Guy_Waving_Jamaican_Flag.jpg public/system/images/3/original/11002000962.jpg public/system/images/2/thumb/Profile Pic.jpg public/system/images/2/original/Profile Pic.jpg public/system/images/2/original/02 Login Screen.jpg public/system/images/1/original/Argentina-2010-World-Cup.jpg Please move or remove them before you can switch branches. Aborting
This is what my .gitignore file looks like:
.bundle .DS_Store db/*.sqlite3 log/*.log tmp/**/* public/system/images/* public/system/avatars/*
How do I get this working so I can switch branches without deleting those files?
If I make a change, will it affect those files? In other words, if I came back to this branch afterwards would everything be perfect as up to my latest commit?
I don't want to lose those files, I just don't want them tracked.
git checkout does not affect untracked files. Git only manages tracked files, and it works fairly hard to avoid letting you lose data (which is critical).
“git reset all untracked files” Code Answer'sTo remove directories, run git clean -f -d or git clean -fd. To remove ignored files, run git clean -f -X or git clean -fX. To remove ignored and non-ignored files, run git clean -f -x or git clean -fx.
I hit this message as well. In my case, I didn't want to keep the files, so this worked for me:
git clean -d -f .
git clean -d -f ""
If you also want to remove files ignored by git, then execute the following command.
git clean -d -fx .
git clean -d -fx ""
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clean.html
-x
means ignored files are also removed as well as files unknown to git.
-d
means remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files.
-f
is required to force it to run.
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