Re: question concerning branches

ib@wupperonline.de (Ingo Brueckl) writes:

I'm a git novice and have a comprehension question concerning branches.

Within a git repository, I do:

  git branch test
  git checkout test
  # edit foo.bar
  git checkout master

I'd expect that master is in the exactly same unchanged state it was at
branching time, but what a surprise, foo.bar is modified here, too!

You didn't commit your change to foo.bar.

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What must I do to get a test branch I can't work without affecting master?

commit changes.