Need a guide n00b on creating staging commits please

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I want to create staging points such as “2025-04-25 WORKING pre dangerous test” and be able to come back to it 3 days later if things go totally wrong.

I am OK that my database does not get a snapshot, this is about code.

Now I tried forks/remixes in the past, and lost all my data. I have also asked replit to help me do it in github and the command lines scare me. But I’m pretty sure the git tab in replit should be able to help me, I’m just daunted.

I see the “commit” seciton, and I think I put a summary and description there, but then where do i give it a name i can come back to, why does it say “review changes” and have only 1 file there, and how will i get that staging point back later?

I see the branch menu top left. Is that where I would create a point to come back to? But then why do I have 192 commits to push just under that? Isn;t replit keeping my github updated every second?

Here’s what I THINK the processs is:

  • Push so i have 0 commits; my github is up to date
  • use branch drop menu to create a new “2025-04-WORKS” branch
  • Manually keep coming back to push I think?
  • Then if I want to go back, i select this name and “pull”
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All you need to do is make the branch like I showed you yesterday, then, agent will commit code changes automatically, and give the commit a name. Very rarely, if ever, will you need to make your own commit titles/descriptions. The exception would be when you edit code yourself, then it’ll need you to make the commit.

Every time you start a new feature or start working on something after you’ve squashed a previous bug, make a new branch, then go to work.

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Also you don’t need to add the date, it’ll date stamp for you.

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