Creating a Git branch
Branching in Git is incredibly powerful and easy to use because operations are performed locally. It's not only easy but also highly recommended to operate on any major changes within a branch. You can use local branches to play with ideas, experiment, and generally mess around, all without affecting anyone else's changes. Once you've concluded your work, you can easily push the branch to the remote and issue a pull request to merge your changes into the main branch or if the experiment went nowhere, delete the branch without pushing the changes remotely.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you need either a Red Hat- or Debian-based Linux host.
How to do it…
Let's create a Git branch:
- Ensure that the repository is cloned locally using ...
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