From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:21:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git commit --branch
Message-ID: <20060531152129.GJ14325@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5dvyvkq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

hoi :)

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:52:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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