Git allowing me to switch branches without committing changes

Question

I am just learning Git, going through a tutorial. I am in branch seo_title and I have uncommitted changes to file mission.html. I did git checkout master expecting

Answer 1

This is the normal behavior. If you don't want the modified files on your newly checked out branch, then stash them. Like this.

# on branch dev
$ git stash
$ git checkout master

# do stuff on master

# back to dev
$ git checkout dev
$ git stash pop