Re: bug or a general misunderstanding

Hello Johannes,

Thanks for your ideas.

I have checked out the respective new branch and switched between the 
original and the new, multiple times.
Otherwise I would not have noticed the lack of commits.

I have also set up a virtual machine, free of any IDE or GIT. There I 
only installed Git for Windows and repeated the process via cmd. The 
result is the same, there are missing commits in the history compared to 
the original branch.

Best regards
André Pohlmann

Am 10.11.2021 15:46 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

Hi André,

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

quoted

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

quoted

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