Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:34:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> >     Of course, if you want to create a new branch "my-branch" and _not_
> >     check it out, you could have done so with just
> > 
> >         git-rev-parse v2.6.12^0 > .git/refs/heads/my-branch
> > 
> >     which I think I will codify as "git branch".
> 
> And now we have that "git branch". It's a trivial one-liner, except with
> the setup and error checking it's actually more like six lines.

Does it make sense to think about this branch as an flow of commits?
Or is it just a starting point for a line of development?  If I make a
branch, check it out, commit changes to it, and then clobber the
working directory, can I later resume that branch of development
without creating a new branch?  Do I need to set a tag to mark the
last commit on that branch?