[git] Can't switch back to branch after unfreezing and freezing rails

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

it's not directly Rails related, but as many Rails developers switched to git, maybe someone can help.

I got an old app with frozen Rails that I wanted to refactor/update. Checked it out from svn repo and initialized git repo for local development, added everything and committed.

Switched from "master" to a new branch ("develop") and then to another one ("rails_update"). Being on "rails_update" I removed vendor/rails and committed. Then I cloned rails git repo into vendor/rails, switched to stable version 2.1.0 and committed these changes. Now I can't switch back to "develop" branch, because I get this error:

"fatal: Untracked working tree file 'vendor/rails/.gitignore' would be overwritten by merge."

If I remove this file, it complains about vendor/rails/actionmailer/ CHANGELOG - simply the first file it can find in vendor/rails dir.

Any ideas how to switch back to "develop" branch and merge changes from "rails_update" branch? And how should I update Rails with git to not get this strange error message again?

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I'm not sure, but the first thing that occurs to me is that I removed the .git directory after updating to Rails 2.1.0 because I'm not sure you can have one git repo inside another. You should put back the .gitignore file and try removing the .git directory in vendor/rails if you do indeed still have one there.

Just guessing, but I hope that helps.

Regards, Craig