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Asked: 2026-06-04T16:05:16+00:00

I’m new to use of git and Aptana. Reading something about git, I discover

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I’m new to use of git and Aptana.

Reading something about git, I discover that I can create new branches. And I can do this with Aptana.

But I understood that if I create a new branch, I have a separate environment in which I can work without take care of the changes I make, as they are not applied to my main source code.

So I expect that if, in Aptana, I switch between branches, the files I open should be the ones of the specific branches.

So if I have the file “A” with “some content” in the master branch, if I create a new branch (call it “testBranch“) and edit the file “A” writing into it “Some new content”, if I switch back to the master branch and open the file A it should contain again “some content”.
If I open the same file from the testBranch, instead I should find in it “Some new content”.

Instead, using Aptana, I see the modified file also if I switch between branches.
But I think isn’t this the way git’s developers thought the tool.

I think that if I’m in the master branch file “A” should contain “some content”, while if I switch to “testBranch” file “A” should contain “some new content”.

Am I wrong? Is there something I misunderstanding?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you have modified a file, but not committed it, Aptana won’t modify it when you are switching branches (ie checkout another branch).

    But if you had already committed that file in your current branch (before switching), and the content doesn’t vary, then it could be related to this bug: “Git checkout from GUI (App Explorer) sometimes doesn’t checkout branch“.

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