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Development Tools Git Basics Branches Beginning to Branch

Chen Wang
Chen Wang
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Posted by Chen Wang
Chen Wang
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The log of a newly created branch

In the lecture video, 

$ git checkout branchname

can switch to a branch.

It says this command will checkout the latest commit for that branch. Does this mean that the log of this branch will only contain the latest one commit of the master branch?

I had four log in my master branch. After that, when I switch to a new branch, the new branch contains the latest two logs of my master branch. I don't see why this happen?

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
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Iain Simmons
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Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

This Stack Overflow question might help if you want to only show the logs for a particular branch.