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What happens when a new branch is created in Magit?
When a new branch is created, then the branch, commit, or stash at point is suggested as the starting point of the new branch, or if there is no such revision at point the current branch. In either case the user may choose another starting point.
How to check out a revision in Magit?
Checkout a revision read in the minibuffer and defaulting to the branch or arbitrary revision at point. If the revision is a local branch then that becomes the current branch. If it is something else then HEAD becomes detached. Checkout fails if the working tree or the staging area contain changes.
What is the transient prefix in Magit branch?
The transient prefix command magit-branch is used to create and checkout branches, and to make changes to existing branches. It is not used to fetch, pull, merge, rebase, or push branches, i.e. this command deals with branches themselves, not with the commits reachable from them. Those features are available from separate transient command.
How to merge my feature branch into Master?
I’ve made some changes in master and created a spinoff branch (b s) called my-feature. Now I’ve finished my feature and would like to check it in. For checkin, I need to (fast-forward) merge my feature branch onto master and check in master. Normally I could do this with the awesome magit-merge-into (m i) feature).
How do you create a new branch in Git?
You can create a new branch using the command. Alternatively, you can use two commands to create a branch and then checkout so that you can start working on it. However let’s first understand what does this checkout command means, and then how can we create a new branch from current or master branches.
How to create new branch from master or current branch?
How this works: 1 First of all, move to master if you are on any branch right now. 2 Pull the latest changes from the repository. 3 Create a new branch with the latest changes from the master More