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