6.4
Adding another commit
Before we look at branches, I want to make some small modifications to index.html and add it as another commit. Just so we’ve got two commit points to look at. This again is following the previous example in section 2.2.
Modify index.html, remove the second paragraph by deleting lines 21 and 22 from the original file (the original files is shown in code 6.3:
<html lang="en"> <!-- Declare language --> <head> <!-- Start of head section --> <meta charset="utf-8"> <!-- Use Unicode character set --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="11-resources/01-css/style.css"> <title>PracticalSeries: Git Lab</title> </head> <body> <h1>A Practical Series Website</h1> <figure class="cover-fig"> <img src="11-resources/02-images/logo.png" alt="cover logo"> </figure> <h3>A note by the author</h3> <p>This is my second Practical Series publication—this one happened by accident too. The first publication is all about building a website, you can see it here. This publication came about because I wanted some sort of version control mechanism for the first publication.</p> </body> </html>
| Code 6.5 Modification to index.html |
Save the file and it will show in the Git pane as modified.
Tick the box to stage the file.
Figure 6.34 Modified and staged index.html
Just one thing to note, there is a small red (pink?—I’m a man, not good with colours) bar showing in the index.html file. This shows where something has been deleted. A green bar shows where something has been added and a yellow bar (might be amber or orange) shows a line that has been modified.
Commit the change with the following commit message:
P01: First Publication |
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| Index.html modified, proofreading correction. |
It looks like this:
Figure 6.35 Commit dialogue box
This time (because there is only one file), the Commit dialogue box shows the changes to index.html. It shows what has been deleted (in pink, that’s definitely pink).
Click the history button to see the two commits.
Figure 6.36 Second commit in history
This time the commit is [25c1410]. Clicking this commit shows the commit information screen:
Figure 6.37 Second commit information
Let’s also tag this new commit with the label P01.
Again click the tag icon in the Git pane 
. This opens the simple tag dialogue box:
Figure 6.38 Tag dialogue box
Giving us this:
Figure 6.39 Commits with tags
And we now have this workflow:
Figure 6.40 Workflow with two commits
button. The result depends on which file is selected in the file tree at the left hand side. I have this:
