git-branch

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? Fatih git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME creates a new branch and checks out the new branch while git branch BRANCH_NAME creates a new branch but leaves you on the same branch. In other words git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME does the following for you. git branch BRANCH_NAME # create a new branch git checkout BRANCH_NAME # then switch to the new branch git branch creates the branch but you remain in the current branch that you have checked out. git checkout

We are using a git repository to store our project. We have our branches departing from the original branch. But now we want to create a small new project to track some documentation. For that we would want to create a new empty branch to start storing our files, and I would want other users of the network to clone that branch. How can we do that? I tried some things, but they didnt work. $ mkdir proj_doc; cd proj_doc $ git init $ git add . $ git commit -m 'first commit' $ git br proj_doc $ git co proj_doc $ git br -d master $ git push origin proj_doc It seems to push the branch ok, but when I

Is it possible to commit and push changes from one branch to another. Assume I commited changes in BRANCH1 and want to push them to BRANCH2 . From BRANCH1 , is it valid to do: git push origin **BRANCH2** And then reset BRANCH1? SLaks That will almost work. When pushing to a non-default branch, you need to specify the source ref and the target ref: git push origin branch1:branch2 Or git push <remote> <branch with new changes>:<branch you are pushing to> Ryan Stewart Certainly, though it will only work if it's a fast forward of BRANCH2 or if you force it. The correct syntax to do such a thing is