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>] | [[-f] <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-f:: 29 Force a reset of <branchname> to <start-point> (or current head). 30 31<branchname>:: 32 The name of the branch to create or delete. 33 34<start-point>:: 35 Where to create the branch; defaults to HEAD. This 36 option has no meaning with -d and -D. 37 38 39Examples 40~~~~~~~~ 41 42Start development off of a know tag:: 43+ 44------------ 45$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 46$ cd my2.6 47$ git branch my2.6.14 v2.6.14 <1> 48$ git checkout my2.6.14 49 50<1> These two steps are the same as "checkout -b my2.6.14 v2.6.14". 51------------ 52 53Delete unneeded branch:: 54+ 55------------ 56$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git 57$ cd my.git 58$ git branch -D todo <1> 59 60<1> delete todo branch even if the "master" branch does not have all 61commits from todo branch. 62------------ 63 64Author 65------ 66Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 67 68Documentation 69-------------- 70Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 71 72GIT 73--- 74Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 75