question git branches

2005-08-29 Thread Ben Greear
Hello! I've been trying out git and have some questions... I installed the latest snapshot of git, pulled down the kernel (2.6.13-rc7), and started hacking. What fun...got myself a git patch and was happy. Then, decided I wanted to branch off my changes from the main tree so I could maintain

Re: question git branches

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On 8/29/05, Ben Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.

Re: question git branches

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Ben Greear wrote: I think I'm missing something fundamental though... I wanted to change to the ben_dev_rfcnt branch to build a kernel without my additional patch. git branch ben_dev_rfcnt seems to change it fine, but all of the changes for repository 'foo' are also

Re: question git branches

2005-08-29 Thread Ben Greear
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Ben Greear wrote: I think I'm missing something fundamental though... I wanted to change to the ben_dev_rfcnt branch to build a kernel without my additional patch. git branch ben_dev_rfcnt seems to change it fine, but all of the changes for

Re: question git branches

2005-08-29 Thread Jon Loeliger
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 10:03, Linus Torvalds wrote: (Both git branch and git checkout -b branchname that reate a new This of course, is Git's answer to the long standing UNIX tradition. Whereas UNIX would creat() files, Git will reate() branches. Linus jdl -