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Create a branch and commit changes - GitHub Tutorial
From the course: Learning GitHub
Create a branch and commit changes
- [Instructor] As I mentioned in the last video, on the top bar you'll see the current branch and other remote branches. A remote branch is a branch not synchronized locally on your machine. You can click on the remote branch to synchronize the branch locally and start to work on it. By the way, with GitHub Desktop, you can create a new branch without leaving the client and navigate to the GitHub website. It's very useful if you don't want to waste time on navigating on internet to find your repository, create a new branch, and synchronize the branch locally. Let's do that. Click on the current branch tab on the top of the app, and in the text box, start writing the name of the new branch. For instance, in this case, we can use the branch name feature001. The application tried to search the name of the branch locally and online, and if you didn't find the branch, propose to create a new branch. Click on the button, create a new branch, or use the keyboard shortcut control + shift + N.…
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