From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:53:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Correcting forgetting to make a new branch
Message-ID: <AANLkTikjonZxcHk3a4HvEhiDfcBqwgpqzFP2F=8tF7qv@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqk4g57j1h.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

> "Alexey Feldgendler" <alexeyf@opera.com> writes:
>
>> However, the branch that was active before when you should have
>> branched will have been unintentionally updated. To fix that, you'll
>> need to move the old branch a few commits back:
>>
>> git branch -f <old-branch> <where-it-was-before>
>
> This is correct, but for completeness: don't do that if you've already
> pushed your changes. If you pushed them and people already pulled them,
> you can hardly do better than appologize to your co-workers that you
> shouldn't have done that, and possibly create a new commit on top of the
> branch reverting what you did.

I hadn't (luckily), so that worked fine. Thanks for your help - both of you :)