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Re: question git & branches

From
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2005, 11:27 UTC
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<4312C24E.4000803@candelatech.com>
On 8/29/05, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
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> I created a new branch 'ben_dev_rfcnt'.
> 
> Now, I also have another patch that I wanted to pull into git.
> 
> Before merging this, I created another branch 'foo'.
> 
> I changed to this branch foo and imported my patch and resolved the
> conflicts, etc.

Are you using git-checkout to change branches? If you have cogito installed, cg-status is a good, handy way of confirming you are where you expect to be.

You can also do git-show-branch{,es-script}
cheers,
martin
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