Re: bug or a general misunderstanding

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 10, 2021, 14:46 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2111101545000.21127@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <0bb0056a59cda294d416762d7f8a9c47@posteo.de>

Hi André,

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, andre_pohlmann@posteo.de wrote:

> The following situation: I wanted to create a branch from a commit. From there
> on the work should be continued.

I suspect that the command you used was `git branch <name> <commit>`? That _creates_ the branch, but does not switch to it. You need to call `git switch <name>` to switch the worktree to it. If you want to do all in one go, use `git switch -c <name> <commit>`.

Ciao, Johannes

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> The possible bug:
> The newly created branch is missing commits in the history. Not only are they
> not displayed, the code changes are not present.
> It doesn't matter if the branch is created by Visual Studio or GIT for
> Windows.
> Only in a branch created by GitHub Desktop the commits are present, as I would
> expect.
>
> Is this a bug or do I not understand how GIT works?
>
> Best regards and thank you for the effort
> André Pohlmann
>
>