POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches : Re: Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches Server Time
27 Jan 2026 15:00:11 EST (-0500)
  Re: Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches  
From: Shay
Date: 22 Jan 2026 21:40:00
Message: <web.6972df33461f9d4e75c22b329fe599e6@news.povray.org>
Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> I created a branch, made some changes there, then switched back to the
> main branch, and the changes were also in that branch as well.  Why did
> the changes apply to both branches?  What am I missing?
>
> Most baffling is that I got branches to work just 3 weeks ago.  I don't
> know what I did differently.

90% chance you created a branch with `git branch` but then never checked it out.
Create a branch with `git checkout -b new-branch` to do both at the same time.


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