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Bug 337578

Summary:	egit does not properly remove top level elements on branch switch
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Kay Huber <quorg.xtn>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Jens Baumgart <jens.baumgart>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	robin, stefan.lay
Version:	0.11
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Kay Huber

2011-02-18 10:49:14 EST

Steps to reproduce:

* On an empty workspace, create two java project "HelloWorld" and "HelloWorld2"
* add a class to both, share to git, commit
* in the repository view, create a branch of master, called "experimental" (do *not* switch to it just yet)
* delete HelloWorld and HelloWorld in the working directory
* execute "git rm -r HelloWorld" and "git rm -r HelloWorld2" in command line (due to limitation / me-not-knowing-better it seems not to be possible to commit deleted projects from within egit itself... -> I created https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=337577 for that)
* commit (should land in master branch)
* in repository view, checkout "experimental" branch -> HelloWorld and HelloWorld2 are added to working directory again (OK)
* in repository view, checkout "master" branch -> HelloWorld and HelloWorld2 remain in working directory -> bad

I cross-checked with native git: the last step (git checkout master) will drop HelloWorld and HelloWorld2 from the current working directory. So this seems to be a limitation / but of egit / jgit.

Comment 1 Robin Stocker

2013-05-18 16:39:35 EDT

This was fixed in bug 374023, marking this as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 374023 ***