git issues: newly added folder in one branch of git repository is visible in other branch

Question

It's possible that I'm not really understanding how git works here, but I have a development git branch, and then I created a new branch called development_cached

I switched to the development_cached branch, freeze rails version for my project, then I ran two commands git add . and git commit respectively, and then switched back to the development branch to make some other changes to that branch.

When I ran ls vendor in development branch, its showing rails folder what I have added and committed to development_cached branch.

Can anybody please explain me why is it happening like this?

Answer 1

Can you check the contents of the vendor folder? Was there anything added to it that was not committed to the development_cached branch?

Answer 2

Try git reset --hard HEAD while on development to reset back to the state of the latest commit in that branch (and remove any other files from the directory). Note that this will wipe any uncommitted changes.