GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

The branches page and a comparison with the git branch command

Let's create a branch named add_description and checkout into it:

git checkout -b add_description

Next, edit README.md, add some text, make a new commit, and push it to GitHub:

echo "\n## Description\n\nGitHub for dummies" >> README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "Add second level header to README file"
git push origin add_description

Now let's create a second branch named new_feature out of the master branch and just push it to GitHub:

git checkout master
git branch new_feature
git push origin new_feature

Now its time to switch to GitHub and see how all this information is presented.

In the main repository page, you can now see that there are three branches. Click on the ...