提交后 git 文件和文件夹在结帐后消失[暂停]

Question

I created a branch added few files to it, committed changes. Later I did checkout to master. After that the files in the folder disappeared. When I switched back to the same branch again I can see all the files back.Below are the steps that I followed:

1. git checkout branchName
2. vi test/test.txt
3. git add .
4. git commit -m "test commit"
5. git push
   after this step the folder contains test.txt file
6. git checkout master
   after this step the file test.txt disappears from test folder
7. git checkout branchName
   after this i can again see the file test.txt file in test folder

Kindly tell me if I am missing any steps here

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to understand how GIt Checkout Command work : Once you switch to a new branch by typing

$git checkout new_branch

Once you run this command it will:

• Remove all the files and directories from the Working Directory( they are all stored in the repository so no worries nothing lost)
• Pull out from the repository all of the files and directories of the commit that this new branch points to.

To recap: this will remove all the files that are referenced by commits in the master branch. They will be replaced by the files that are referenced by the commits in the newly created branch. This is so important to know and to understand.

Note that all the commit that you will do later will be added to the active branch. so check first in which branch you are in first u can use git log --oneline --graph --all for example to show the complete graph and where the head is.