Re: Let's Try Something New(tm)

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:30:18AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:46:48AM -0500, kyle mcmartin wrote:
> > And, well, I'm kind of getting sick of it. I propose for at least the next
> > few months, instead of everyone being able to pollute the shared tree, they
> > keep all their work in branches. Instead of merging or pushing, or whatever,
> > you can send the patches to the list for review. This will work more or less
> > like linux-kernel does, hopefully. 
> 
> Ok. Fair enough. Well said. Can someone with more git experience than I
> have share a recipe for creating and committing to a git branch?
> Maybe post that on one of the existing HOW-TO web pages or a new wiki page?
> 

I will post it to the wiki page, but the basic gist is you checkout a new
branch...

git checkout -b NEW_BRANCH_NAME

to branch off of the current working branch...

Or

git checkout -b NEW_BRANCH SOME_TAG_OR_OTHER_HEAD_OR_SHA1

to build a new branch at some previous or future point.

You can see what you're doing when you gitk afterwards.

Use git-branch to find out what branch you are on.