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Gabriel
Gabriel

Reputation: 42459

Clone branch so that new one is independent of original branch

I have a code which I track with git + Github. Currently I have a master and a test branch:

$ git branch
* master
  test-branch

What I want to do is to clone the state of test-branch into a new test-branch-2 branch to work with. I know I can do this with:

git checkout -b test-branch-2 test-branch

If I later on decide I'm done with test-branch and delete it (perhaps after merging it into master), will this affect my test-branch-2 at all?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 137215

Deleting your test-branch will not affect test-branch-2.

If your repository looks like

test-branch2            G---H
                       /
test-branch       E---F
                 /
master  A---B---C---D

and you merge test-branch into master, then delete test-branch you'll end up with something like this:

test-branch2      E---F---G---H
                 /     \
master  A---B---C---D---I

Note that test-branch2 still contains commits A, B, C, E, F, G and H, in the same order as before. The new commit I is the merge commit from merging test-branch into master.

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Upvotes: 3

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