📘
Engineering Communications Program Team Projects
Open Source Guide
Open Source Guide
  • Welcome
  • Creators
    • Reasons to create
    • Create a repository
      • Set up documentation
        • README
        • CONTRIBUTING
        • License
    • Name your project
    • Build a community
      • Communication Mediums
        • Mass Notifications
        • Formal Exchanges
        • Real-Time Messaging
      • Code of Conduct
    • Additional Resources
  • Contributors
    • Reasons to contribute
    • Find a project
      • GitHub Trending
    • Ways to contribute
    • Choose an issue
    • Read supporting documentation
    • Git Workflow
      • Fork a project
      • Create a branch
      • Add a commit
      • Submit a pull request
      • Review code
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • What is a branch?
  • How to create a branch?
  1. Contributors
  2. Git Workflow

Create a branch

PreviousFork a projectNextAdd a commit

Last updated 3 years ago

What is a branch?

A branch is a version of the code that is different from another branch. Committing and pushing to the same branch will not impact another branch.

How to create a branch?

git checkout -b "branch name"
There are 2 other branches "add-richard" and "patch-1"