Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

Change into the example repository:

$ cd ~/example

Now, check that you're on master to start:

$ git branch* master

Your current branch is denoted with an asterisk. 

Good! Now, we're going to branch off from master, and make some changes:

$ git branch develop

Run git branch again:

$ git branch  develop* master

Note that now, we have two branches, but we're still on the master branch. We need to run a different command to flip to our new branch:

$ git checkout developSwitched to branch 'develop'

Now, list what's in this branch:

$ lsREADME

We've effectively made a copy of the master branch, meaning that all of the files committed to that branch are available in our new one.

Let's create a new file and give it some content:

$ echo ...