Not Possible to switch branch after --skip-worktree

Question

WHAT I WANT TO DO

I have a file which contains sensitive datas so I don\'t want to push content of this file to remote server.

WHAT I DID?

To achiev

Answer 1

Well, this is a cruddy solution, but seems to work reasonably well (though it is only lightly tested):

Create a file named git-checkoutsw somewhere in your PATH, with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
ignored=( $(git ls-files -v | grep "^S " | cut -c3-) )
for x in "${ignored[@]}"; do
  git update-index --no-skip-worktree -- "$x"
done
git checkout -m $@
for x in "${ignored[@]}"; do
  git update-index --skip-worktree -- "$x"
done

The script captures the list of ignored files, unignores them, checks out the new branch with -m (for merge) and whatever other parameters have been specified, and then ignores them again.

Now you can do git checkoutsw instead of git checkout.