Branches and Merging

Part of the Git course

Every commit you have made so far sits on one single line of history called main. Real work rarely stays that simple. You want to try an idea without risking the working version, or two people need to work on different features at the same time without stepping on each other. Git's answer is the branch: a lightweight, movable label pointing at a commit.

This lesson works in the hello-git repository from lesson 01, rebuilt here so the lesson also works on its own. Press Play to create it in this lesson's folder with one commit (pressing it again starts over) ...