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GitHub Basics

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Create a Branch

3:40 with Kyle Daigle and Alyson La

Branching allows you to work on multiple versions of your code at once, meaning you are free to experiment until you are ready to commit.

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Git Commands:

  • git branch: list out branches
  • git branch [branch-name]: create a new branch
  • git checkout [branch-name]: switch to the newly created branch
  • git checkout -b [branch-name]: shortcut! - use this command to create & switch to the new branch
  • git push origin [branch-name]: push branch & changes to GitHub

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    It's an exact copy of the original branch as it was at that point in time. 0:00
    This means you're free to experiment and commit changes, 0:00
    safe in the knowledge that your new branch won't be merged until you're ready. 0:02
    Let's create a branch to work on the readme.md file. 0:06
    In the console, we'll type git branch and 0:10
    the name of the branch we would like to create, add-readme. 0:13
    Branch names cannot contain spaces, so 0:18
    we generally use the hyphen to separate words in our branch names. 0:20
    Now when we type git branch, we see the name of our new branch, but 0:24
    we're still checked out to master. 0:28

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