January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
548 pages
12h 11m
English
A distributed version control system such as Git is designed for the complex and nonlinear workflows that are typical in interactive computing and exploratory research. A central concept is branching, which we will discuss in this recipe.
You need to work in a local Git repository for this recipe (see the previous recipe, Learning the basics of the distributed version control system Git).
myproject repository and we create a new branch named newidea:$ pwd /home/cyrille/git/cookbook-2nd/chapter02 $ cd myproject $ git branch newidea $ git branch * master newidea
As indicated by the star *, we are still on the master branch.
newidea branch: ...Read now
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