Re: [git-users] How do you switch head location without changing files?

2015-05-11 Thread Michael
Thank you! On 2015-05-10, at 5:49 PM, Dale R. Worley wor...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Michael keybou...@gmail.com writes: Lets say you've got files set up to commit to one point in the tree, but you're actually in a different location. How do you move where you are / where a commit will go,

Re: [git-users] How do you switch head location without changing files?

2015-05-10 Thread Dale R. Worley
Michael keybou...@gmail.com writes: Lets say you've got files set up to commit to one point in the tree, but you're actually in a different location. How do you move where you are / where a commit will go, without altering the files? git reset --soft branch looks like the command that does

[git-users] How do you switch head location without changing files?

2015-05-10 Thread Michael
Lets say you've got files set up to commit to one point in the tree, but you're actually in a different location. How do you move where you are / where a commit will go, without altering the files? How did I get here? 714 git checkout 4194 715 git tag -a baseChest -m Branch here for