
The name of a local or remote branch that you want to switch to. It has a very clear and limited purpose: switching and creating branches! Important Options The "switch" command provides a simple alternative to "checkout". The problem with "checkout", however, is that it's a very versatile command: you can not only use it to switch branches, but also to discard changes, restore files, and much more. It's relatively new (added in Git v2.23) and provides a simpler alternative to the classic "checkout" command.īefore "switch" was available, changing branches had to be done with the "checkout" command. Now lets apply our changes.The "switch" command allows you to switch your current HEAD branch. $ git commit -a -m "Merged networking with master" Time spent merging files $ git add (insert conflict resolved files here) Other wise it will be even hard to merge. But I really should go back and merge with Master now before I do any work. Ok, now I am "back in time" when networking last pushed to origin. Nothing to commit (working directory clean) Rebalanced the gameMechanics() in Asteroids to increase the difficulty as the levels increase. Fixed a few bugs with the TripleShotWeapon. HEAD is now at 20d6ee8 done tweaking game on the main branch. It looks like Master is too far ahead of Networking for git to do all the work for me. # added by them: src/ServerConnectionThread.java # deleted by us: src/NetworkClientThread.java # deleted by us: src/DedicatedServer.java Version 92d5b7c4e7c4110803eabf5d5152e7f2a337d722 of src/NetworkUpdate.java left in tree.ĬONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in src/ScenePanel.javaĬONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in src/Shield.javaĪutomatic merge failed fix conflicts and then commit the result. Version 92d5b7c4e7c4110803eabf5d5152e7f2a337d722 of src/NetworkClientThread.java left in tree.ĬONFLICT (delete/modify): src/NetworkUpdate.java deleted in HEAD and modified in 92d5b7c4e7c4110803eabf5d5152e7f2a337d722. Version 92d5b7c4e7c4110803eabf5d5152e7f2a337d722 of src/DedicatedServer.java left in tree.ĬONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in src/MainMenu.javaĬONFLICT (delete/modify): src/NetworkClientThread.java deleted in HEAD and modified in 92d5b7c4e7c4110803eabf5d5152e7f2a337d722. Now Master has been updated many times since anyone has done anything on networking $ git pull origin networkingĬONFLICT (rename/delete): Rename src/ServerClientThread.java->src/ServerConnectionThread.java in 92d5b7c4e7c4110803eabf5d5152e7f2a337d722 and deleted in HEADĬONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in src/Asteroids.javaĬONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in src/BasicWeapon.javaĬONFLICT (delete/modify): src/DedicatedServer.java deleted in HEAD and modified in 92d5b7c4e7c4110803eabf5d5152e7f2a337d722.
#Git switch branch same project how to#
Here is an example of how to use git and branches. This seems to happen whether I do a commit or not on the branch.
#Git switch branch same project code#
# and code added in photo_tagging branch are still there in *master # look at files, tags_controller is still there, added in photo_tagging # approve of the changes, I guess, since if I do git commit after this, it says no changes Git status # see what's changed since before


# make a bunch of changes, creations, etc

Any ideas or suggestions? git checkout -b photo_tagging I'm trying to work with a bunch of experimental code using a stable version of my project, but I keep having to manually track down and fix all the changes I made. I thought I was using git correctly, but at this point, I'm at my wit's end here. Also, running 'git clean -f' either deletes everything that happened after some arbitrary commit (and randomly, at that), or, as in the latest case, didn't change anything back to its original state. I've read that this can happen when you have files open in the IDE while doing this, but I've been pretty careful about that and both closed the files in the IDE, closed the IDE, and shut down my rails server before switching branches, and this still happens. Observe artifacts from the experimental branch I was working in, even though I'm in the master branch.Įvery time I checkout a branch to another branch, make changes to the one branch, and then checkout the original branch, I still have all the files and changes that happened in the other branch.Decide to try another method, go back to master.Commit the branch and push branch to origin (if it worked, otherwise skip this step).

