RE: git branch

From: Tim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail.com>
Date: May 23, 2011, 12:36 UTC
Message-ID: <SNT124-W21FCFAE653C2B81DD980BFC4720@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim_L0M2oFV383+5n7-X_KQTdd3BAg@mail.gmail.com>

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> From: gbuday@gmail.com
>
> > I'm not sure if I'm following you correctly, but with Git you need to
> > check out your branch after creating it. Run git checkout install_2.0
> > after you have created it.
>
> Yes, that sounds reasonable. I did not know it was necessary to "switch to it".
>
> - Gergely

Hi Gergely,

The way that git branches work is that they "point" at commits. When you do a "git commit", git updates the branch to point at the new commit you just created. In this way, you can have a multitude of branches and be working on only one at a time.

N.B. If you want to create a branch and "switch" (checkout) to it at once, you can pass the "-b" option to checkout, thus: "git checkout -b new-branch-name"; this will create a new branch named "new-branch-name" and immediately switch to it.

Tim.

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