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+title: "A Step Back"
+subtitle: "Exactly why I keep this blog"
+tags: [osdev]
+
+I've previously described my normal mode of enjoying the hobby of
+operating system development, i.e. restarting from the ground every time
+I get some time, and then forgetting everything once school starts.
+
+That's exactly why I started writing down what I'm doing in this blog.
+
+The thing is, I didn't really keep to this at the end of summer, and ran
+ahead a bit with the programming, thinking I should catch up with the
+blogging at a later time. Obviously, I didn't do this...
+
+When I took a look at the state of my code a week or so ago, I
+noticed I hadn't even checked in my changes since August. So that's
+what I did, and then I branched off the last commit I blogged about
+([756852fc66](https://github.com/thomasloven/os5/tree/756852fc66b80b1e60
+58d74b8dc334ad841ec5ea)) and made that the new master branch.
+
+For future reference (I'll probably cheat again someday) there were the commands for this:
+
+	git commit -m 'Bad excuse for not checking in before'
+	git checkout -b new_master OLD_COMMIT_SHA
+	git merge --strategy=ours master
+	git checkout master
+	git merge new_master
+
+The resulting commit is found at
+[f74ec287db](https://github.com/thomasloven/os5/tree/f74ec287db488a7bda5
+4ad75f979ca6b5664feef).
+If you take a look at my [commit
+list](https://github.com/thomasloven/os5/commits/), though, you'll
+notice that I cheated again... I told you I would!
+
+Anyway. I'll get right on describing what I've been doing...