thank you all very much for your responses this is the first time I'm
back on Usenet in a long time... it had become practically unusable b/c of
the spam, but I see that google got its act together here, and has somehow
managed to deal with the spam...;-) this is good to know...
yes, I
If you don't want to do a commit, then do a stash. It puts the current
working directory off to the side. Like a temporary branch. When you want
to come back, then you do a git stash pop.
I think I understand how you're working. You likely only do a commit when
you think something is finished. I,
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 08:05 -0700, maya melnick wrote:
but I imagine in other situations, to have to commit every time before
switching branches is weird... what if you haven't finished work on a
branch and need to switch branches to take care of another problem,
but don't want to commit what
From: maya melnick maya778...@yahoo.com
(I haven't commited, it's just a test branch, I don't want to commit;-)
make sense?
The way to think about it is that you've just changed a file in the
working directory, it isn't *in* the branch or the repository. So
when you tell Git to
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 10:20:06 -0500
John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote:
If you don't want to do a commit, then do a stash. It puts the current
working directory off to the side. Like a temporary branch.
This comparison is quite to the point -- the `git stash` command even
allows to
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:05:23 -0700 (PDT)
maya melnick maya778...@yahoo.com wrote:
[...]
but I imagine in other situations, to have to commit every time
before switching branches is weird... what if you haven't finished
work on a branch and need to switch branches to take care of another
On 4 September 2013 01:20, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote:
If you don't want to do a commit, then do a stash. It puts the current
working directory off to the side. Like a temporary branch. When you want
to come back, then you do a git stash pop.
I think I understand how
For milestones, I either create a new branch at that commit point (rarely)
or tag the commit with a nice name.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:40 AM, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 September 2013 01:20, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you don't want to do a commit,
