Create a Branch

So far, we’ve learned the basic commands to keep adding changes as snapshots. It’s time to learn some more techniques.

In this chapter, we’ll learn to do the following:

• We’ll learn to create branches.
• We’ll learn to check out a specific commit.
• We’ll learn to merge branches.
• We’ll learn check the difference between commits.
• We’ll learn to keep a clean commit history.
• We’ll work with git add interactively to select only the changes we want to commit.

Create a branch

We can create a branch using git switch -c. For example, the following command creates a branch named ...