04-git-merge-activity.md

Morning 4 Git merge activity

1. Change Directory back to your work folder on the Bowen drive (/{letter}/work/{COHORT}/{IDENT}/)

2. And then into your recipe folder content/week01/recipe/

3. IMPORTANT: Switch to your main or master branch, if not already on it.

4. Create a new file named thoughts.txt, write some random thoughts to it, then add and commit this new file.

5. Make a new branch named more-thoughts and switch to it.

6. Add some more thoughts to thoughts.txt, then again add and commit these changes.

7. Switch back to your main or master branch.

8. A file can be renamed, with the renaming tracked by git, by using ‘git mv’. Try it out now with:

  git mv thoughts.txt musings.txt
  git status
  git commit -m "renamed thoughts to musings"
  git graph
  ls

9. Note that you now have a file named "musings.txt", but also another branch (more-thoughts) where you had made additions to a file still named "thoughts.txt".
   As "thoughts.txt" no longer exists, what will happen when we merge more-thoughts in to main/master?

Try it out! :

  git merge more-thoughts  

What has happened?

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