Mastering Go - Second Edition

Working with branches

A branch offers a way to manage your workflow and separate changes from the main branch. Each repository has a default branch, which is usually called the master branch, and potentially multiple other branches.

You can create a new branch named new_branch on your local machine and go to it as follows:

$ git checkout -b new_branch
Switched to a new branch 'new_branch'
  

If you want to connect that branch with GitHub, you should execute the following command:

$ git push --set-upstream origin new_branch
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote:
remote: Create a pull request for 'new_branch' on GitHub by visiting:
remote:      https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Go-Second-Edition/pull/new/new_branch
remote:
To github.com:PacktPublishing/Mastering-Go-Second-Edition.git ...