Tells git branch, git switch and git checkout to set up new branches so that git-pull [1] will appropriately merge from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this …

Because the commit on the branch you’re on isn’t a direct ancestor of the branch you’re merging in, Git has to do some work. In this case, Git does a simple three-way merge, using the two …

This configuration will tell git to show the relationship between the two branches in git status and git branch -v. Furthermore, it directs git pull without arguments to pull from the upstream when …

Now that you’ve created, merged, and deleted some branches, let’s look at some branch-management tools that will come in handy when you begin using branches all the time.

The git branch command is actually something of a branch management tool. It can list the branches you have, create a new branch, delete branches and rename branches.

Branches in a Nutshell To really understand the way Git does branching, we need to take a step back and examine how Git stores its data. As you may remember from What is Git?, Git …

When you run git checkout <something>, Git tries to guess whether <something> is intended to be a branch, a commit, or a set of file (s), and then either switches to that branch or commit, or …

DESCRIPTION Switch to a specified branch. The working tree and the index are updated to match the branch. All new commits will be added to the tip of this branch.

DESCRIPTION Incorporates changes from the named commits (since the time their histories diverged from the current branch) into the current branch. This command is used by git pull to …

Various commands, including git checkout and git status, will show you how many commits have been added to your current branch and the upstream since you forked from it, for example …