SUMMARY

I'm using kdesrc-build with stable-kf5-qt5 branch group. It told me this today:

Updating akonadi-calendar (to branch release/22.08)
 * The module akonadi-calendar had local changes from a different branch than expected:
 *   Expected branch: New branch to point to origin/release/22.08
 *   Actual branch:   release/22.04
 *
 * To avoid conflict with your local changes, akonadi-calendar will not be updated, and the
 * branch will remain unchanged, so it may be out of date from upstream.

        * You had local changes to akonadi-calendar, which have been re-applied.
        akonadi-calendar update complete, 0 files affected.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a text file locally (e.g. some log or diff) in a repository
2. Change the branch for that repo in kdesrc-build's config
3. kdesrc-build --src-only

OBSERVED RESULT
It refuses to switch branches

EXPECTED RESULT
It should switch branches just fine, there's no reason for an irrelevant local file to prevent that

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
kdesrc-build 22.01