Hey,
This is a common mistake but Git should have yelled at you pretty well
when you did this. You can't checkout a remote branch - only Git can
move those around. They function as bookmarks of where your remote
repository branches are. If you want to work on them, you have to
create a local branch based off of them. Instead of :
$ git checkout origin/docs
you need to do something like
$ git checkout -b docs origin/docs
Which will create a local 'docs' branch that starts where the 'docs'
branch on your 'origin' remote was. When you ran the 'git checkout
origin/docs' you should have seen a message like :
Note: moving to "origin/man" which isn't a local branch
If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
(now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
Which makes you work in what's called a 'detached HEAD', which is bad.
Tom's right, if you run 'git reflog' you should be able to find your
commit. The output will look something like this:
1939e48... h...@{0}: commit: help
67cb1a7... h...@{1}: checkout: moving from master to origin/man
621f1b4... h...@{2}: origin/master: updating HEAD
f8295af... h...@{3}: checkout: moving from next to master
If the top one is your commit, recover it by running something like:
$ git checkout -b mybranch 1939e48
(substitute the SHA for whatever SHA is in your list)
Hope that helps.
Scott
>> I was working on a fork which i pulled from git hub and .... may b i
>> should just give you the commands of what i did.
>>
>> $git clone <clone url here>
>> $git checkout origin/docs
>> <did lots of editing here but on only one file>
>> $git add <file name here>
>> $git commit
>> $git checkout master
>> I was sleepy and again opened the file to see no changes were done.
>> But when i woke up next day and again did
>> $git checkout origin/docs
>>
>> I couldn't find the changes. My logs confirm what i am saying. So plz
>> help me if you can.
>>
>>
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> Tom Preston-Werner
> github.com/mojombo
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