1git-branch(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-branch - Create a new branch, or remove an old one. 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git-branch' [-d | -D] [<branchname> [start-point]] 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14If no argument is provided, show available branches and mark current 15branch with star. Otherwise, create a new branch of name <branchname>. 16 17If a starting point is also specified, that will be where the branch is 18created, otherwise it will be created at the current HEAD. 19 20OPTIONS 21------- 22-d:: 23 Delete a branch. The branch must be fully merged. 24 25-D:: 26 Delete a branch irrespective of its index status. 27 28<branchname>:: 29 The name of the branch to create or delete. 30 31start-point:: 32 Where to create the branch; defaults to HEAD. This 33 option has no meaning with -d and -D. 34 35 36Examples 37~~~~~~~~ 38 39Start development off of a know tag:: 40+ 41------------ 42$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 43$ cd my2.6 44$ git branch my2.6.14 v2.6.14 <1> 45$ git checkout my2.6.14 46 47<1> These two steps are the same as "checkout -b my2.6.14 v2.6.14". 48------------ 49 50Delete unneeded branch:: 51+ 52------------ 53$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git 54$ cd my.git 55$ git branch -D todo <1> 56 57<1> delete todo branch even if the "master" branch does not have all 58commits from todo branch. 59------------ 60 61Author 62------ 63Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 64 65Documentation 66-------------- 67Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 68 69GIT 70--- 71Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 72