[git-users] Understanding Cherry-Pick

2014-08-27 Thread Brian Wall
I thought I understood cherry-picking, but can't get it to work in practice. Can somebody please explain what I'm missing? *Setup* 1. Start with a plain text file in *master* with two rows in it (one commit per row): 1. L1 2. L2 2. Create a branch (*workbranch*) and check

[git-users] Help me understand cherry-pick

2014-08-27 Thread Brian Wall
I thought I understood cherry-picking, but can't get it to work in practice. Can somebody please explain what I'm missing? *Setup* 1. Start with a plain text file in *master* with two rows in it (one commit per row): 1. L1 2. L2 2. Create a branch (*workbranch*) and

[git-users] Re: Understanding Cherry-Pick

2014-09-02 Thread Brian Wall
Thank you both for your replies. Clearly I have more to learn about this, and the learning curve is steep with Git! But I'll mull it over and let it sink in. So what brought me down this road initially was going through the lessons at http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/. In the A Mixed