How to create a branch in GitHub

You do these steps:

git checkout -b your_branch git push -u origin your_branch 

show all branches (see result):

git branch 

Reference: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-branch

When you create a branch in github, it's in the github remote. You need to fetch the branch from that remote, to your local, and tell your local to track that branch.

git fetch <remote_name> <branch_name>

git checkout --track <remote_name>/<branch_name>

This assumes you want the branch_name on the remote to be the same on your local.

A branch is a lightweight thing in git, it is just a sticky note pointing to a commit. Actually, it is even lighter than a tag (which has additional attributes).

You normally create branches locally. If you want to create a branch newbranch starting off at oldcommit (which can, as always, be a commit hash, a branch name, a tag name or some other more obscure things), then you basically have two equivalent ways of doing that:

git checkout oldcommit git checkout -b newbranch 

or

git branch newbranch oldcommit git checkout newbranch 

It's a matter of taste, I prefer the first one.

To push the branch to the remote origin:

git push origin newbranch 

I suggest you get very familiar with working with branches, you will be doing it all the time, and it should really feel easy and spontaneous to you. This is one of the major benefits of using git over other versioning systems.

when you create a new branche in github with the browser you must pull it in your local repo so you do : git pull and after you execute : git branch

git checkout -b 'branchname'

this will create a new branch and transfer you there from the master