Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Ben Greear wrote:
I think I'm missing something fundamental though... I wanted to
change to the ben_dev_rfcnt branch to build a kernel without my
additional patch. git branch ben_dev_rfcnt seems to change
it fine, but all of the changes for repository 'foo' are also
still here.
"git branch" just creates the branch, it doesn't actually do anything
else. Use "git checkout <branchname>" to switch to it.
I tried 'git checkout ben_dev_rfcnt'. It took a few seconds and
had no errors. But, the files created on my other branch still
exist in the code tree, and I still see my patch in the
existing files.. I would expect them to go away.
I don't think I've managed to commit anything to any branch yet... Could that
be part of the problem?
I tried gitk -all, and get this error popup:
Gitk: error reading commits: bad arguments to git-rev-list.
(Note: arguments to gitk are passed to
git-rev-list
to allow selection of commits to be displayed.)
Thanks,
Ben
You can do both with "bit checkout -b <branchname>" which both creates the
branch and switches to it.
(Both "git branch" and "git checkout -b <branchname>" that reate a new
branch take an optional argument which says what point you want the branch
to start at. It defaults to "current state", but you can create a branch
at any point in the history by just explicitly stating the commit name
that you want to start off with as the head of the branch)
Use "gitk --all" to visualize where the different branches are in the
history, and a plain "git branch" with no arguments to list the branches
and mark your currently active branch.
Linus
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