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Jacob
Jacob

Reputation: 11

Create branch inherited from master

If I create a branch in the terminal 

git checkout -b 'test_branch2'

this branch will be inherited from the branch on which I was before that (in my case, test_branch1).

I need to create a branch inherited from master in the terminal, how do I do that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 561

Answers (1)

mkrieger1
mkrieger1

Reputation: 23144

A branch in Git is not inherently related to any other branch.

A branch is only a "pointer" or "bookmark" to a commit and therefore refers to that commit and all of its ancestors.

The command

git checkout -b 'test_branch2'

creates a new branch which points to the commit that is currently "active" (the one which the special HEAD reference points to).

The command accepts as additional argument the name of, or reference to, a particular commit. Such a reference can for example be another branch.

So in order to create a new branch that points to the same commit as the branch master currently does, you can use

git checkout -b test_branch2 master

(the quotes aren't required in this case, by the way)

Note again, this doesn't make test_branch2 in any way related to master, they only happen to point to the same commit now, but that could change in the future.

Upvotes: 2

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