Re: bug or a general misunderstanding

[andre_pohlmann@posteo.de]

Hello Johannes,

Thanks for your ideas.

I have checked out the respective new branch and switched between the 
original and the new, multiple times.
Otherwise I would not have noticed the lack of commits.

I have also set up a virtual machine, free of any IDE or GIT. There I 
only installed Git for Windows and repeated the process via cmd. The 
result is the same, there are missing commits in the history compared to 
the original branch.

Best regards
André Pohlmann

Am 10.11.2021 15:46 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> Hi André,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, andre_pohlmann@posteo.de wrote:
> 
>> The following situation: I wanted to create a branch from a commit. 
>> From there
>> on the work should be continued.
> 
> I suspect that the command you used was `git branch <name> <commit>`? 
> That
> _creates_ the branch, but does not switch to it. You need to call `git
> switch <name>` to switch the worktree to it. If you want to do all in 
> one
> go, use `git switch -c <name> <commit>`.
> 
> Ciao,
> Johannes
> 
>> 
>> The possible bug:
>> The newly created branch is missing commits in the history. Not only 
>> are they
>> not displayed, the code changes are not present.
>> It doesn't matter if the branch is created by Visual Studio or GIT for
>> Windows.
>> Only in a branch created by GitHub Desktop the commits are present, as 
>> I would
>> expect.
>> 
>> Is this a bug or do I not understand how GIT works?
>> 
>> Best regards and thank you for the effort
>> André Pohlmann
>> 
>>