Git Essentials ??? Second Edition - Second Edition

Creating a new branch

Now that we have warmed up, the fun begins. Let's see what happens when you ask Git to create a new branch. Since we are going to serve a delicious fruit salad, it's time to set a branch apart for a berries-flavored variant recipe:

[9] ~/grocery (master)
$ git branch berries

That's all! To create a new branch, all you need to do is call the git branch followed by the name of the branch you'd like to use. And this is super-fast; always working locally, Git does this kind of work in a blink of an eye.

To be true, there are some (complicated) rules to be respected and things to know about the possible name of a branch (all you need to know is here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-ref-format), but for now it is not relevant. ...