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
31 Jan 2026 06:12:39 EST (-0500)
  Re: Nope, I STILL don't understand git branches  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 31 Jan 2026 00:55:13
Message: <697d9941@news.povray.org>
On 31 Jan 2026 00:52:22 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:

> This is what I'm used to seeing.  But my usage generally had me making
> changes within a branch, not creating the branch myself, and then the
> developer who created the branch would merge things back (my main use
> case for this was years ago creating in-product text strings for
> documentation purposes - tooltips and the like).

I think I understand better now - once I committed the changes to master, 
then the branch I created (test1) "reverted" to what was originally in the 
file when I branched it (ie, it was empty).



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


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