On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:17:07 -0400, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> There is something I don't understand about Git branches.
> 
> I have some projects that have been on my hard disk for years, but have
> just recently converted to Git repositories.  I want to start a branch
> on one of them.  My understanding is that Git tracks changes in both the
> main/master branch and the new branch.  But I only have one working copy
> of the actual files in my directory.  Which branch do these files
> represent, and where are the files of the other branch?  How does this
> all work?

The only change tracking is on the active branch.  If you're working 
outside of master, no changes you make are recorded in master unless you 
either do a cherry pick or a merge - in either case, at the point of the 
merge or cherry pick, the changes you've made (or selected, in the case 
of a cherry pick) are brought into the target branch (can be master, can 
be some other branch).

In git, you're only ever working in a single branch, ever.



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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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