Branches¶

Change the commit a branch points to¶

git branch -f <branch> <commit>

Useful if you accidentally commit to your local main!

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Rename a branch¶

git branch -m <name>

or

git branch -m <old> <new>

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Upstream Branches¶

Start tracking a remote branch

$ git branch --set-upstream origin/branchname

Stop tracking the upstream branch

$ git branch --unset-upstream

Verbose Info¶

Pass a few -v flags to git branch to get more useful information!

$ git branch -vv
  develop      c46fa42 [origin/develop] Add exciting new integration
* new-feature  a1b2c3f WIP
  main         0cd3fd3 [origin/main] Merge pull request #123
  hotfix       9a2eff5 [origin/hotfix: ahead 3, behind 2] Fix infinite loop