Re: Commited to wrong branch

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Howard Miller
> <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm pretty shocked how difficult this is... still...
>
> No prob. It's only hard at the beginning :-)
>
>> I'm finding git logs and reflogs pretty difficult to read and
>> interpret (head melting) - in particular telling what happened on what
>> branch -
>
> I found gitk enormously helpful to visualise things. Try
>
>  gitk # will show you the current branch
>
>  gitk X Y # will show you both branches
>
> gitk is a ton easier to visualise. git log is pretty good but won't
> show merges, so it's limited.
>
> git reflog is confusing, but it's mostly a tool to help when there's
> been a mess and you want to diagnose WTH happened...
>
>>but looking at the reflog (which I assume is showing me the
>> actions on the current branch, but I'm not sure)
>
> Don't worry about the reflog...
>
>>  I think I must have
>> made two commits on the wrong branch so the reset has only 'popped'
>> the top one. Other than that your interpretation is correct.
>
> Ok, so looking at gitk, there would still be one "wrong" commit. Can
> you confirm?
>
>> I cannot currently change branches - it only complains about one file.
>
> If you did follow my previous instructions (specially doing 'git reset
> --hard'), then this should not happen. Except...
>
> Except when you have a file that git is not tracking, and it exists in
> the "other" branch. The commit you undid earlier probably added that
> file. So just rm that file, and change branches.
>
>> I'm a bit worried about that - I would like to understand why this is
>> a problem but I don't.
>
> About the file? It was "new" in the commit you un-committed. So when
> you do git reset --hard, git makes sure all the files it is
> _currently_ tracking are "unchanged". If that file was new, it ignores
> it. Just rm it and be happy.
>
>> So I am now a little hazy on how to deal with previous TWO commits.
>
> Just review gitk and confirm if there are more commits to unstich --
> and we'll  work from there
>
>
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