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

There is also another flag to mention, which is relative to these..

git checkout -B BRANCH_NAME

This is a very useful command that i've been using recently. This command checks out the branch you specify, and resets the branch based on the source branch.