From the course: Git: Branches, Merges, and Remotes

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Create branches

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- In this movie, we're going to learn how to create branches. Before we create our first branch, let's just start by looking at the branches that are there currently. If I type git space branch then it will show me a list of the branches. When I hit return, you see it comes up and there's only one branch. It's the master branch and by default, that's the name that every git project gives when you first initialize the project. It says alright all commits are going to be on one master branch. That's the starting point. Notice that there's also an asterisk over on the far left and that it's colored green. That's to indicate that this is the current branch or the currently checked out branch. At the moment, there is only one branch but once there are several, only one of them will be designated as the current branch. Okay, now let's create a branch. I told you that creating branches was very easy, it really is, git branch and then a space, and then the name of our branch. I'm going to…

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