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Abbas M
Abbas M
474 Points
Posted by Abbas M
Abbas M
474 Points

add branch

ADD a branch

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi Abbas,

There's not enough information to go on here to give you a definite answer so you'll have to tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree but from the sound of things I'm guessing you're working on a project on GIT VCS and want to know how to add a branch to a project.

You might have been trying with 

git branch *branchName*

to create one.

However the way to do it is using 

git checkout -b nameOfBranch

-b is a flag that tells git to create a new branch on your local repository. It will create it and then take you to the newly created branch.

I hope I've got this right and it has helped. :)