Re: question git & branches

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

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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