What is the difference between “git branch” and “git checkout -b”?

Question

I used git checkout -b to create a new branch. I think that git branch does the same thing. How do these two commands differ, if they differ at all

Answer 1

git branch creates the branch but you remain in the current branch that you have checked out.

git checkout -b creates a branch and checks it out.

It could be considered a short form of:

git branch name
git checkout name