SJGP Software

Note: I led the project to convert a team's Source Control Management tool and processes from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe to Git. This is an edited version of a How-To document I wrote and distributed in response to some questions about Merge vs Rebase in Eclipse. As you know, I’ve been recommending using local Git branches to separate your projects. By that, I mean create a branch from the Dev branch, make your changes and commit them as often as necessary to your local branch, switch branches when you need to switch projects, etc. One side-effect of using local branches is that when you bring your work into the main Dev branch, it leaves a new commit, a Merge commit. This means that, even though we do not have feature branches on the server, we can still wind up with a history that looks like this on the server: We wind up with the clutter of parallel lines showing the life spans of our local branches, and extra commits (nine in the above screen-shot, marked by the...