Creating a Branch

Learn how Git lets us create branches seamlessly and quickly.

The git branch command

The git branch command is a useful, multi-purpose tool that lets us do a lot of different things. When used as is (without any other options appended), the command will print out all the branches present in the repository and point out which branch we are currently on.

git branch

Let’s use it in the terminal and see what happens.

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