git branch

Hi there,

I created

git branch install_2.0

for my install script. Then pushed to

git push origin install_2.0

so that github stores by branch

after another commit I tried to push again but git told me that I'm
not on that branch. Why git loses the state that I'm on a branch? What
should I do to have my expected behaviour?

- Gergely

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:36:09PM +0200, Gergely Buday wrote:

Hi there,

I created

git branch install_2.0

for my install script. Then pushed to

git push origin install_2.0

so that github stores by branch

after another commit I tried to push again but git told me that I'm
not on that branch. Why git loses the state that I'm on a branch? What
should I do to have my expected behaviour?

- Gergely

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.

	Marcus

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

From: gbuday@gmail.com

quoted

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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