Hello everyone,
we recently switched to git and so far it's doing a terriffic job.
Today though, we had a problem that we couldn't figure until now.
We have a master, a develop and a refactor branch. Today we merged
refactor into develop, which dramatically changes some source files. I
needed to change only one line in master and develop afterwards.
So i changed it in develop and cherry picked it into master.
$ git cherry-pick a165eb8c7b4306f349a9754102315195a17208ab
Got of course a conflict and also know that this was a bad idea. So i
decided to reset this to HEAD and do a checkout from my HEAD after.
$ git reset HEAD somefile
$ git checkout -- somefile
After that i modified my line by hand in the file (so the original
modification from develop wasn't there), made a diff afterwards (which
only showed the modification of the one line) and committed my changes.
$ git diff somefile
$ git push
In the end the new file from develop was pushed to master, which isn't
of course what i wanted.
What did i do wrong? Why does git reset to the develop HEAD during the
merge? Why is the checkout of the file a version of the file before the
cherry-picked commit? Why does my diff show only the one changed line?
A lot of questions i know. I'm totally new to git so can someone please
help me!
Thank you in advance!
kind regards,
Tobias
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