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Re: [RFC] git commit --branch

From
Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date
May 31, 2006, 15:21 UTC
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<20060531152129.GJ14325@admingilde.org>
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hoi :)
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:52:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> you can switch to another existing topic branch do with "git
> checkout", perhaps with the -m flag.  While I was on the "master" to
> figure out why gitweb was not behaving for me, and figured out a mis-
> configuration that should be fixed in "newconf" topic, I switched to
> that topic and committed the fix there, after testing the change
> there.  Then either merging it back to "master" or rebuilding "master"
> from scratch based on "origin" and merging my topics got me a working
> gitweb back.

So perhaps my real problem was that I did not know about checkout -m. Your description of the workflow is of course much saver then automatically committing to an other branch.

-- 
Martin Waitz
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Message 14 of 15 in “[RFC] git commit --branch”
  1. Martin WaitzMay 29, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceMay 29, 2006
  3. Martin WaitzMay 29, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceMay 29, 2006
  5. Martin WaitzMay 29, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceMay 29, 2006
  7. Johannes SchindelinMay 29, 2006
  8. Jakub NarebskiMay 29, 2006
  9. Martin WaitzMay 29, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinMay 29, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2006
  12. Martin WaitzMay 30, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2006
  14. Martin WaitzMay 31, 2006
  15. Jon LoeligerJun 5, 2006

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