man git-branch (Commandes) - Create a new branch, or remove an old one.

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git-branch - Create a new branch, or remove an old one.

git-branch [-d | -D] [<branchname> [start-point]]

If no argument is provided, show available branches and mark current branch with star. Otherwise, create a new branch of name <branchname>.

If a starting point is also specified, that will be where the branch is created, otherwise it will be created at the current HEAD.

-d: Delete a branch. The branch must be fully merged.
-D: Delete a branch irrespective of its index status.
<branchname>: The name of the branch to create or delete.
start-point: Where to create the branch; defaults to HEAD. This option has no meaning with -d and -D.

Start development off of a know tag
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 $ cd my2.6 $ git branch my2.6.14 v2.6.14 $ git checkout my2.6.14

These two steps are the same as "checkout -b my2.6.14 v2.6.14".

Delete unneeded branch
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git $ cd my.git $ git branch -D todo

delete todo branch even if the "master" branch does not have all commits from todo branch.

Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

Part of the git(7) suite