Tutorial Git Branch

Shows the git branch and the git merge commands in detail.

Setup

Setup a new repo with the initial data.

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> $ mkdir gitbranch $ cd gitbranch

1. Initialize git.

$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /Test/gitbranch/.git/

1. Creating the initial content

$ echo Original Init Data Master >> data $ git add data $ git commit -m "Introduction" [master (root-commit) 551517e] Introduction

1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 data

1. Check the status

$ git status On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean </syntaxhighlight>

Create branch

Now lets create a new branch called newImage. <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">

1. Creating the new branch

$ git branch newImage

1. Prepare to put something into the new branch

$ git commit $ git branch

 * master
   newImage

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Houston we have a problem. We are at branch master instead of the newImage.

See also

• Git, General on Git
• GitHub, General on GitHub
• Tutorial Git Add, Tutorial on 'git add'.
• Tutorial Git Commit, Tutorial on git commit.
• Tutorial Git Diff, Tutorial on 'git diff'