[git-users] Re: Problem with branch edits

2011-01-26 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Changes in your working directory are not branch-specific. If you change a file without committing it, you can switch (checkout) branches as much as you want. It's only when you commit that the changes get connected to a branch. If you want to immediately stash away local changes for fixing som

[git-users] Problem with branch edits

2011-01-26 Thread akaTreyT
I create a project in Xcode and do the following in terminal: cd to the project path git init nano .gitignore (fill in the ignore files) git add . git commit -m "init commit" git branch NewBranch git checkout NewBranch edit the files git checkout master the problem is the edits on the NewBranc

[git-users] Re: fatal: No existing author found with

2011-01-26 Thread ats
Thanks a ton. That took care of it. On Jan 24, 10:44 pm, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:38:05PM -0800, ats wrote: > > I did not have the global user.name and user.email not set and hit the > > commit first. > > > I am now trying to amend the username with the below comma