Branches & directories

[Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have been noticing strange behaviour that I would like to be able to
explain or report as a bug as the case may be.

What happens is that I create and commit a new directory in branch
'next' and then when I checkout 'master' this new directory is still
there. I think this is wrong as this new directory does not exist yet
in 'master'. Is my understanding correct?

I tried recreating this scenario in a clean Git repo with a simple
mkdir and commit but when I did a checkout of 'master' the new
directory was removed. So the basic scenario seems to work the way I
expect it to.

Assuming I ran into a bug, I would like some suggestions to properly
investigate this. Clearly, I'm doing something else that triggers the
behaviour I'm seeing but I'm not sure what it is. What might trigger
Git "remembering" a directory? Or what would prevent it from removing
a directory when checking out a different branch?

Extra information: "git status" (in 'master') yields nothing. But
after adding a new file in the directory-that-should-not-be-there, Git
treats the entire directory as untracked and new (as one would
expect). I can also safely remove the directory with no (obvious) ill
effects.

Cheers,
Hilco