[gmx-developers] Creating new branch off master

[David van der Spoel]

On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> On 16/02/2012 10:08 PM, David van der Spoel wrote:
>> Since master is managed through gerrit, does it mean that creating a new branch also should be done through gerrit? Or can we use vanilla git repository to do this?
> 
> Branches are just labels for commits in your repo. So you can branch locally to your heart's content, and if/when it makes sense to have a feature branch under gerrit control, that can be sorted out at the time. Do use git rebase for keeping in sync with the upstream repo, to save yourself pain later.
> 

What I would like is a branch *without* gerrit control, but based from the master branch.
> Mark
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