| [ptp-dev] Git: Switching to a different branch - Help! |
I thought I knew how to switch to a different branch but I guess I don't. This should be easy/simple/intuitive but it doesn't seem that way to me.
I started writing it on the wiki at http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/environment_setup/git#Switching_to_a_different_branch
but I am doing something wrong.
Here is the wiki text for reference: PLEASE help.
SWITCHING TO A DIFFERENT BRANCH
Each repository that you clone can have one or more branches in that repository that is stored on your workstation. (e.g. master and ptp_5_0 are kept by most of our PTP developers). If you have two different workspaces for the two branches, then switching one to a branch will switch the other one too. We recommend making two different clones of the git repo, where one by default points to master, and the other points to ptp_5_0, even though they both contain both branches.
CAVEAT this does not work for me yet
Then to switch ... you want to "check out an existing branch"
▪ Select Team > Switch To... and select a branch name from the list
If there are too many branches the list does not show all of them. In this case
▪ Select Team > Switch To... > Other...
▪ On the dialog, select a branch, a tag or a Reference
▪ in my case i was already in ptp_5_0 branch; I do not see master in the same list; and i selected origin/master under "Remote Tracking" (I don't think this was right)
▪ Click Checkout button
▪ THIS DOES NOT LOOK RIGHT because now instead of repo name and branch to the right of each project node in Package Explorer, it now has "df39689..(refs/heads/ptp_5_0)" See questions below.
How do I "switch to" which i think means "checkout" another branch which in this clone of the repo? In my case my clone has master and ptp_5_0.
Question: my git repo has master and ptp_5_0 in it that i selected when i cloned the repo. I don't see where i can see what these are (branches that are in my cloned repo)
Question: what happens to changes you have made to files in your workspace (not committed or pushed) if you switch to another branch?
...Beth
Beth Tibbitts
Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform http://eclipse.org/ptp
IBM STG - High Performance Computing Tools
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