saying that you want to check out a new branch:
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-$ git checkout -b mybranch
+$ git switch -c mybranch
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will create a new branch based at the current `HEAD` position, and switch
In other words, if you have an earlier tag or branch, you'd just do
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-$ git checkout -b mybranch earlier-commit
+$ git switch -c mybranch earlier-commit
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and it would create the new branch `mybranch` at the earlier commit,
You can always just jump back to your original `master` branch by doing
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-$ git checkout master
+$ git switch master
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(or any other branch-name, for that matter) and if you forget which
which will simply _create_ the branch, but will not do anything further.
You can then later -- once you decide that you want to actually develop
-on that branch -- switch to that branch with a regular 'git checkout'
+on that branch -- switch to that branch with a regular 'git switch'
with the branchname as the argument.
that branch, and do some work there.
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-$ git checkout mybranch
+$ git switch mybranch
$ echo "Work, work, work" >>hello
$ git commit -m "Some work." -i hello
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to the master branch, and editing the same file differently there:
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-$ git checkout master
+$ git switch master
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Here, take a moment to look at the contents of `hello`, and notice how they
'git merge' to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch.
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-$ git checkout mybranch
+$ git switch mybranch
$ git merge -m "Merge upstream changes." master
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work." commit.
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-$ git checkout mybranch
-$ git reset --hard master^2
-$ git checkout master
+$ git switch -C mybranch master^2
+$ git switch master
$ git reset --hard master^
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