POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches: Re: Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches : Re: Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches		Server Time 27 Jan 2026 15:00:06 EST (-0500)

From: Cousin Ricky
Date: 27 Jan 2026 09:02:15
Message: <6978c567$1@news.povray.org>

On 2026-01-26 02:00 (-4), Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:44:27 EST, Bill Pragnell wrote:
>>
>> An untracked file is just a big change after all.
> 
> But it looks like the file is tracked, so any changes to it made in one 
> branch shouldn't affect other branches, unless they're either not tracked 
> (which isn't the case) or in .gitignore (which would *probably* require it 
> to have been explicitly added in some way, and I expect CR would know if 
> he'd done that).

I'm sensing disagreement in what "tracked" means.  Jim is using
"tracked" the way I've understood it, but Bill is describing the
behavior I'm seeing from git.

But .gitignore is one aspect of git that has never given me any surprises.

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