Branches

Source: https://www.nobledesktop.com/learn/git/git-branches

See branches

NB: The current branch will have a * next to it.

Both local and remote

git branch -a

Remote only

git branch -r

Local only

git branch

Checkout a branch

Use git switch or git checkout followed by the branch name. Prefer switch as checkout has other functionality that it can do to restore files as per SO and switch was introduced to be used for changing branches. Note do not include the remote/origin in the command it will automatically create the local branch and set it up to track the remote branch. Eg to check out develop use:

git switch develop

Create a branch

Source: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/using-branches/git-checkout

Create Only

git branch new_branch

Create and checkout

git checkout -b new_branch

Delete a remote tracking branch after the branch has been deleted on the remote

• r is for remote
• d is for delete

git branch -rd origin/TRACKING_BRANCH_NAME