Git functions revisited

[Gerold Krommer]

Hi,

first I'm relatively new to git (whaddashame!) and I read the H&M help and entries in this forum over and over.

Is my understanding correct that in essence - after the setup has been completed - you can synchronize and check status and that's it?

• I cannot add a comment to the save (that has been mentioned a month ago in another post)

• I cannot add a tag from H&M

• I cannot edit any other branch than 'main'

I' not really complaining but if above is true it took me (too) many hours to figure out. It would be cool if that is spelled out somewhere in the help.

What I normally do is when I work on a new version of a software (and corresponding documentation) I create a branch from the current version , work on it and when done merge the work back to the original branch (and tag it).

I gather this way of working does not work OOTB from H&M?

Currently I use Github Desktop to fix the first two bullets by using Right Mouse Click over the desired commit and AMEND. While I can somehow live with bullets 2 and 3 , not being able to be add a comment is a real pain. As opposed to the previous poster a single comment for the complete commit is fine for me.

Kind regards,

Gerold

[Tim Green]

Hi Gerold,

I cannot add a comment to the save (that has been mentioned a month ago in another post)
I cannot add a tag from H&M
I cannot edit any other branch than 'main'

Yes, those are all correct at the moment. Part of it is caused by restrictions of the scripted interface. However, as you've discovered yourself, you can get around this by managing with GitHub Desktop or even the command line interface outside of Help+Manual. The only thing I would strongly recommend keeping is "main" as your main branch.