1git-branch(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-branch - Create a new branch. 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git-branch' [<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<branchname>:: 23 The name of the branch to create. 24 25start-point:: 26 Where to create the branch; defaults to HEAD. 27 28Author 29------ 30Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 31 32Documentation 33-------------- 34Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 35 36GIT 37--- 38Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 39