git-branch

This is probably quite simple but I'm currently a git noob and haven't quite got my head round the git branching model yet. Suppose I currently have no branches other than master , but now I've made some changes since my last commit that I've decided I don't want to keep (note: the changes are not committed yet). I don't want to get rid of these changes just yet though - I'd like to put them in their own branch (called e.g. experimental_stuff ) and then continue development from my previous commit. So I guess the steps are: make current master a branch ( git branch experimental_stuff ?) go

C:\Users\Inspiron\.git\config folder is empty and command $git config user.email user@gmail.com returns error: opening .git/config: permission denied. I try to set post buffer size,but get same error. Thats not a folder its the main configuration file for git. Here you can see the files for configuration http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config Permission denied under windows its a bit strange. Check the permissions of the file. Perhaps you have removed the Permissions in the extended permissions. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be a folder. Delete it and let git create it. Check Windows

In the case that a a repository has a number of branches: How does one simply update a file across all the branches. In this case it's a bashrc like file that specifies some environments variables. I have in the past updated the master branch version then rebased each branch. This has a sort of n+1 overhead, I'd like to avoid. I think, it is bit late but following script will help you in this. #!/bin/bash if [ $# != 1 ]; then echo "usage: $0 <filename>" exit; fi branches=`git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/\*` curr_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD` # echo "curr