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Experiment safely with branches

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Experiment safely with branches

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to start looking at branches, which are the main way we can pursue different directions in our work. And we recall that master is the main branch. Of course, we can make our own. So let's say I'm going to start dealing with the fact that some questions are not as frequently asked as they used to be. And I'm going to start removing some. I'll create a new branch where I can start working on that idea. In Sublime Merge, I can create a branch using this command in the repository menu. We'll call this fewer FAQs. And now I can see I have a new label for this branch. Nothing else has apparently changed, so let's start working on this. I'm going to start removing some of these FAQs from the file. Move a couple of these, then save, now back over here, I will stage and commit this change. We'll call this first pass at removing less frequently asked questions. And now my new fewer…

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